"Every dogma must have its day."
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"We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live."
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"A living gale is better than a dead calm."
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"Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself"
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"All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met."
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"... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination."
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"how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame."
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"The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all."
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"In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present."
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"There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you."
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"A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity."
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"The way to do some things is to do them."
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"What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements."
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"Reward is its own virtue."
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"Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke."
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"I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result."
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"I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject."
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"... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker."
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"Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation."
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"Circumstances alter faces."
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