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The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot, Walter. "The Cabinet." The English Constitution. London: Chapman and Hall, 1867. Originally published in The Fortnightly Review, 15 May 1865 - 1 Jan. 1867.

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America, thou half-brother of the world;
With something good and bad of every land.

Philip James Bailey

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Bailey, Philip James. Festus. London: William Pickering, 1839.

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Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

John Howard Payne

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Home, Sweet Home

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Payne, John Howard. "Home, Sweet Home." Clari, or the Maid of Milan. Composed by Henry Bishop. 1823, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, England, UK.

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After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

A.S.W. Rosenbach

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A Book Hunter's Holiday

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Rosenbach, A. S. W. A Book Hunter's Holiday. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936.

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Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Christabel Pankhurst

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Pankhurst, Christabel. Unshackled: The Story of how We Won the Vote. Hutchinson, 1959, ch. 5.

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Chumps always make the best husbands... All the unhappy marriages come from the husband having brains.

P.G. Wodehouse

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Wodehouse, P. G. The Adventures of Sally. Herbert Jenkins, 1922. Originally published in Collier's Magazine, 8 Oct. 1921-31 Dec. 1921.

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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Kingsley Amis

One Fat Englishman

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Amis, Kingsley. One Fat Englishman. Harcourt, Brace & World/Gollancz, 1963.

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Prose was born yesterday-this is what we must tell ourselves. Poetry is pre-eminently the medium of past literatures. All the metrical combinations have been tried but nothing like this can be said of prose.

Gustave Flaubert

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Louise Colet. 24 Apr. 1852.

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Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

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I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

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Peacock, Thomas Love. "Gryll Grange." Fraser's Magazine, 1860.

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Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.

Tallulah Bankhead

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Bankhead, Tallulah. Tallulah: My Autobiography. Harper & Bros./Victor Gollancz, 1952, ch. 4.

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.

John Heywood

Be Merry Friends

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Heywood, John. Be Merry Friends. c. 1580.

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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Boris Pasternak

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Pasternak, Boris. До́ктор Жива́го [Dr. Zhivago]. Feltrinelli, pt. 2, ch. 13, sect. 12.

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Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Vintage International, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 13, sect. 12.

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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow

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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. Viking Press, 1973.

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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "At Forescore." Harvard University Annual Dinner. 18 Jan. 1952, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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The English Bible,— a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "John Dryden." Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1828.

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No, no, really! Memory's not perfect. It's not even that good. Ask the police. Eyewitness testimony is unreliable. The cops don't catch a killer by sitting around remembering stuff. They collect facts, they make notes and they draw conclusions. Facts, not memory. That's how you investigate. I know. It's what I used to do. Look, memory can change the shape of a room. It can change the color of a car and memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation. They're not a record. They're irrelevant if you have the facts.

Memento

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Memento. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Summit Entertainment/Team Todd, 2000.

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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

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Ruskin, John. "Of Kings Treasures." Sesame and Lilies. 1864, Manchester, UK.

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Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 18, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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