Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.Cyril Connolly
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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