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The more a writer deviates from simplicity, the less sincere he appears.

— Thomas Gordon Hake

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A poem, of whatever length, should start vividly, so as to wind up the ear and set the mind ticking.

It may be boasted that free-trade in physic came before free-trade in corn, and from that time medical science began to flourish in this country.

I thought no one ever could paint a woman's eyes like Rossetti. There was a softness, a delicacy, a life, a soul in them, never seen elsewhere, but in living beings, and that how rarely!

Nothing that has been and has died out, will be revived. The skeleton, an osseous Apollo, will remain, and that is all.

I remember well the time when no gentleman was supposed to smoke; the habit was fit only for the vulgarian.

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