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» The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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» An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

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» I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

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» Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

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» I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

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» The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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» Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

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» I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

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» A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

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» I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

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