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"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic."
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"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order."
Poetry
"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
Imagination
"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
Advice
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
Happiness
"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Soul
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
Future
"Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style."
Bible
"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."
Enthusiasm
"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
Being
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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