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A man of letters is often a man with two natures,—one a book nature, the other a human nature, often clash sadly.
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Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
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The saddest failures in life are those that come from the not putting forth of power and will to succeed.
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We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
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Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
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Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
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Of the three requisitions of genius, the first is soul, and the second, soul, and the third, soul.
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The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
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The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.
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There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.
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A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.
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“A person with a bad name is already half hanged,” saith the old proverb.
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A true teacher should penetrate, to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.
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A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
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Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.
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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.
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It is at once the thinnest and most effective of all the coverings under which duncedom sneaks and skulks.
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It marries ideas lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understanding.
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The laughter which it creates is impish and devilish, the very mirth of fiends, and its wit the gleam and glare of infernal light.
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