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" Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. "

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" History develops, art stands still. "

" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. "

" Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. "

" It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. "

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" England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. "

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" How can I know what I think till I see what I say? "

" Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. "

" I am certainly an ought and not a must. "

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" If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words. "

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" At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. "

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" Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. "

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" One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. "

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" We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. "

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