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“The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.”

William Dean Howells

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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

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“How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing…

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n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a…

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Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

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If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

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“If he was not commonplace, it was through nothing remarkable in his mind, which was simply clear and practical, but through some combination of…

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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

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The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the…

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“Our theory of disaster, of sorrow, of affliction, borrowed from the poets and novelist, is that it is incessant; but every passage in our own lives and in the lives of others, so far as we have witnessed them, teaches us that this is false. The house of mourning is decorously darkened to the world, but within itself it is…

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Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit,…

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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

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