"Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments"
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"There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession."
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"So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape."
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"He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood."
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"The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar."
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"America is not a country, it is a world."
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"Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them."
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"Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion."
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"Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost."
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"It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression."
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"Music is the perfect type of art."
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"I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism."
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"An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory."
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"There are few things easier than to live badly and die well."
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"Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living."
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"And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes."
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"Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much."
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"Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented."
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"To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour"
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"Nature constantly imitates art."
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