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"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."
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"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."

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"Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer."

"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."
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