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/ page 752 of 1205 /I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
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Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
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Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
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Translation is at best an echo.
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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
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I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
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Two great talkers will not travel far together.
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Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
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I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.
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I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.
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Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.
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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
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