Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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He was a son of Godand he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.
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