"Slow but steady wins the race."
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"We shall perish by guile just as we slew."
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"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced."
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"Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change."
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"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."
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"Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books."
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"Literature exists because the world isn't enough."
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"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."
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"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."
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"Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course."
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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."
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"To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence."
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"Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you."
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"The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism."
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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."
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"Fair and softly goes far."
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"Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy."
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"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme."
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"A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands."
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