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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!"
"IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."
"I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up."
"I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate."
"I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't."
"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere."
"My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline."
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