"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."
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"Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason."
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"Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution."
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"He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical."
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"Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society."
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"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."
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"Love always has its price, come whence it may."
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"Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not."
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"A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be"
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"If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting."
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"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself."
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"Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing."
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"One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then"
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"The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do."
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"The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward."
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"That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em."
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"A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity."
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"I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain."
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"However British you may be, I am more British still."
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"Even the idiot may have a message for us"
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