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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so...more

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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

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Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, ...more