The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.Samuel Butler
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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