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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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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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The two things clearest in my mind were, that a remoteness had come upon the old Blunderstone life—which seemed to lie in the haze of an immeasurable ...more

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Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nat...more