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Edgar Allan Poe has 333 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs…
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... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the…
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often…
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in…
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