Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man.
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Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
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In parliament he again pressed the necessity of reducing expenditure. Friends warned him that he was flogging a dead horse.
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They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
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He who hates vice hates men.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
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The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
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Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
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Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
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'Active hatred of cruelty, injustice and oppression is perhaps the main difference between a good person and a bad one.'
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Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
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Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times.
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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
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