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“Good men are never concerned in revolutions, because they will not go the lengths.”
“The critics generally consider a tragedy as the next effort of the mind to an epic poem.”
“Thought and reason, unless matched by feelings, are empty, delusive things.”
“Every man's death is, literally, the end of a world if he dies without hope.”
“Why are so many people ashamed of having intelligence and using it?”
“If you are an intellectual, your best course is to relax and enjoy it.”
“There is no democracy in the world of intellect, and no democracy of taste.”
“The reader cannot create; that has been done for him by the author.”
“Foolish people laugh at those readers a century ago who wept over the novels of Dickens.”
“A pig can learn more tricks than a dog, but has too much sense to want to do it.”
“Modern man is a debtor, or he is nothing, and money becomes more and more illusory.”
“When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.”
“It seems to me that most of us get all the adventure we are capable of digesting.”
“Triviality about the past leads certainly toward a trivial future.”