"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed."
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"God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you."
"Crying over what's gone won't find the present."
"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."
"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."
"The shortest answer is doing the thing."
"New faces have more authority than accustomed ones."
"A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations."
"Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one."
"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."
"I know how men in exile feed on dreams."
"When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?"
"Good literature makes your head throb heartlike"
"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him."
"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true."
"Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!"
"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."
"Every man's memory is his private literature."