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" Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. "

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" A book worth reading is worth buying. "

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" Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. "

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" He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. "

" All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. "

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" Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. "

" To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. "

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