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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.

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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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