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What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

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What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

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Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

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