If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is not befitting the human mind.
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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
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My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
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And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
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