"The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person."
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"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."
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"My books are friends that never fail me."
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"No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment."
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"Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it."
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"Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness."
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"Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be."
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"Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence."
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"Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp."
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"The actual well seen is ideal."
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"Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence."
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"Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction."
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"To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity."
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"Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to."
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"Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading."
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"A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort."
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"All comes out even at the end of the day."
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"We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God."
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"The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth."
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"The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes."
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