“The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.”
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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
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