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" Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. "

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" It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. "

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" Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. "

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" No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. "

" The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. "

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" Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "

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" Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. "

" The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. "

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