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- Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.
- Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the…
- No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then…
- It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look…
- Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving…
- He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be,…
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