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"When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."
"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."
"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."
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"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear."
"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds."
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