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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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Good and bad men are less than they seem.

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

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Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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So for the mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

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Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.

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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

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