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If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.

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Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings be...more

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All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of pr...more

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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

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After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they...more

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Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat...more

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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done ...more

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Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at onc...more

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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.