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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.- Max Eastman
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A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.’ Anonymous
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.- Walter Bagehot
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.- O. Henry
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A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages in my progress to the studio of his master.
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A wild, wick slip she was – but, she had the bonniest eye and sweetest smile, and lightest foot in the parish: and, after all, I believe she meant no harm; for when once she made you cry in good earnest, it seldom happened that she would not keep you company, and oblige you to be quiet that you might comfort her.
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes.
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Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it! said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don’t owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!
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Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
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Ah, said Dolly, with soothing gravity, it’s like the night and the morning, and the sleeping and the waking, and the rain and the harvest–one goes and the other comes, and we know nothing how nor where. We may strive and scrat and fend, but it’s little we can do arter all–the big things come and go wi’ no striving o’ our’n–they do, that they do . . .
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All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.
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All literature is political.
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn.’
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All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.
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All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It’s fiction’s business to ask them.- Richard Hughes
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Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
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Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.
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Always remember, Mr. Robarts, that when you go into an attorney’s office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.
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