Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.Samuel Butler
No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.
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With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes, The tools of working out salvation By mere mechanic operation.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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