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Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.
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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every…
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When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer…
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature…
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet…
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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction…
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Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
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To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance…
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The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving…
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But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began…
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The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,…
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He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
— George Saintsbury
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Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by…
— Ambrose
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The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights,…
— Robertson Davies
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Our work is to present things that are as they are.
— Frederick The Great
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Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that…
— Alden Ehrenreich
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There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing…
— Erlend Loe
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
— Tacitus
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The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to…
— Robertson Davies
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