Formerly we used to canonise our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarise them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
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