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"I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself."
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"So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad."
"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there."
"7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show."
"I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know."
"This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven."
"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."
"Heaven's currency is friendship."
"Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?"
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"It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city."
"Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God."
"But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him."
"As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper."
"We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself."
"Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs."
"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."
"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."
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