“Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart.”
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“The Barnacles were a very high family, and a very large family.”
“You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.”
“I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.”
“Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.”
“That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.”
“The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.”
“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature.”
“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!”
“To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.”
“There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
“I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization.”
“The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs.”
“One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.”
“I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.”