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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:…
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before…
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It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.
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Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly…
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died…
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers…
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new…
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above…
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers…
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna…
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
— Anton Chekhov
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Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to…
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
— Robert Burns
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The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits
— H. L. Mencken
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Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The…
— Robert Burns
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Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little…
— Harold Covington
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Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning…
— Raphael
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Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated…
— Colin Fletcher
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It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be…
— John Speed
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