Quote collection
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"True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying."
"Intense love is often akin to intense suffering."
"a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world."
"No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul."
"There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country."
"I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures."
"One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book."