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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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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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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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