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"Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature."
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