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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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