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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills...
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time…
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No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and...
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If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for...
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A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles...
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up,...
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must...
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Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid...
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but...