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"We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders."
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"We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing."
"A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!"
"The wonder of life shouldn't be squandered on insignificant or unbeneficial experiences."
"It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded..."
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"To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions."
"If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language, one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it."
"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."
"What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?"
"It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law, I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden."
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act."
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