"I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning."
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"They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!"
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"You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by."
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"Lightning makes no sound until it strikes."
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"The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it."
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