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"His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines."
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"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."
"I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights."
"Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful."
"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
"Good God. Men everywhere."
"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
"In fact it was altogether an odd dog, of uncertain breed, or breeds. It was large and black, but its hair was tufty, its body scrawny and clumsy, and its manner edgy, anxious, verging on the completely neurotic. Whenever it came to a halt for a moment or so, the business of starting up again often seemed to cause it trouble, as if it had difficulty in remembering where it had left each of its legs."
"While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters."
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"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."
"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."
"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."
"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
"You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty."
"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it."
"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."
"For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."
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