"Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way."
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"I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted."
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"I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid."
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"Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else."
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"We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between theilliterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects. We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were."
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"Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature."
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"How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them."
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"Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers."
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"He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart."
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"Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature."
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"Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated."
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"One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried."
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"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."
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"Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds."
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"It's easy to get a loan unless you need it."
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"People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again."
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"Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them."
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"I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford."
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"Every person born into this world their work is born with them."
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"[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own."
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