Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
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Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.
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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
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Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
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