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If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

— Leslie Stephen Sketches from Cambridge (1865)

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The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

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He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

Is there not a teaching of nature very apt to suggest horror and despair rather than a complacent brooding over soothing thoughts?

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

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