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“We are all children until our fathers die.”
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“Death is the great transition.”
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“Reviewers should know that bad books make good reviews, exactly as 'de mauvais vin on fait de bon vinaigre.' Without the necessary supply, adieu the opportunity for being witty in print, and of showing forth your own superiority, and enlivening the town at the small expense of an author's feelings.”
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“... on a holiday lonely persons always feel their loneliness more keenly.”
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“Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.”
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“Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.”
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“The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.”
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“The sunset has passed through every stage of beauty, through every glory of color, through riot and triumph, through pathos and tenderness, into a long, dreamy, painless rest, succeeded by the profound solemnity of the moonlight, and a stillness broken only by the night cries of beasts in the aromatic forests.”