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The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

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and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like for...more

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It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

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. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group...more

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Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights: some, so remote from this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their rays hav...more

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[S]ome score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be --- as here they are --- mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an...more

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I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge ...more

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He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed ...more

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. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

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I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

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He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had...more

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He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

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They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas f...more

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Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all he saw of children was their being generated in great numbers for certain destructio...more

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Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything e...more