Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you.
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To judge from a single conversation, he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity. Off his own beat, his opinions were of no value.
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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
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