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"Very dangerous things, theories."
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"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
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"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."
"While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern."
"Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse."
"At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!"
"To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh, to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door."
"He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain."
"The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself."
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