"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry."
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"The coward only threatens when he is safe."
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"The world remains ever the same."
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"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin."
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"If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule."
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"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."
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"Too low they build who build below the skies."
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"Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success."
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"Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality."
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"Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings."
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"Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire."
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"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."
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"Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint."
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"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."
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"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
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"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
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"Reason is not what decides love."
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"When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm."
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"Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire."
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"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."
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