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An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly furniture by lifting it into the serene light of science, has shown me this pr...more

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Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

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For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

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Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intention...more

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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive, when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-ma...more

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What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!