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I love you... That is what they were all saying down their phones, from the hijacked planes and the burning towers. There is only love, and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against the hatred of their murderers.

Ian McEwan

On the last messages received from those trapped in the Twin Towers on 9/11.

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McEwan, Ian. "Love and then Oblivion. Love was all they had against their murderers." The Guardian, 15 Sept. 2001.

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Words have weight, sound, and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Maugham, William Somerset. The Summing Up. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938, ch. 13.

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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Thurber, James. "The Duchess and the Bugs." Lanterns & Lances. Harper & Brothers, 1961.

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A man who entertains in his mind any political doctrine, except as a means of improving the condition of his fellows, I regard as a political intriguer, a charlatan, and a conjuror.

Anthony Trollope

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Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1883, ch. 16.

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Trollope, Anthony. "An Autobiography." An Autobiography and Other Writings, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 16.

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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey, but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

William Hazlitt

On Going on a Journey

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Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.

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One goes to Nature only for hints and half truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

John Burroughs

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Burroughs, John. "A Sharp Lookout." Signs and Seasons. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886.

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Burroughs, John. "A Sharp Lookout." Signs and Seasons. Syracuse University Press, 2006.

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In research the horizon recedes as we advance, and is no nearer at sixty than it was at twenty. As the power of endurance weakens with age, the urgency of the pursuit grows more intense... And research is always incomplete.

Mark Pattison

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Pattison, Mark. Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875, ch. 10.

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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franklin P. Adams

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Adams, Franklin P. Nods and Becks. Whittlesey House, 1944.

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[Education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G.M. Trevelyan

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, ch. 18.

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Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity.

George Louis Leclerc

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Leclerc, Georges-Louis. Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi [Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet]. Paris: Imprimerie royale, c. 1753.

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Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of "touching" a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "Charles II." Twelve Types: A Collection of Biographies. Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902.

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The Forgotten Man... Delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... But he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay... Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?

William Graham Sumner

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Sumner, William Graham. "The Forgotten Man." 30 Jan. 1883, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA. Lecture.

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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end."

Jean Rhys

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Rhys, Jean. Voyage in the Dark. Constable Press, 1934, pt. 1, ch. 4.

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Rhys, Jean. Voyage in the Dark. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, pt. 1, ch. 4.

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Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles Kuralt

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Kuralt, Charles. "On the Road" The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. CBS News Productions, c. 1980.

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with truth.

Alfred Adler

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Adler, Alfred. Problems of Nerosis. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1930.

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I wish I loved the Human Race;
I wish I loved its silly face;
I wish I liked the way it walks;
I wish I liked the way it talks;
And when I'm introduced to one
I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Walter Alexander Raleigh

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Raleigh, Walter Alexander. "Wishes of an Elderly Man, Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914." Laughter from a Cloud. Constable, 1923, I. 1.

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Raleigh, Walter Alexander. Wishes of an Elderly Man Wished at a Garden-Party, June 1914. Midsummer Press, 1983, I. 1.

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Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

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Beerbohm, Max. "Laughter." And Even Now. William Heinemann, 1920.

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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature-subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

William Osler

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Osler, William. Quoted in The Life of Sir William Osler, written by Harvey Cushing. Vol. 1, Clarendon Press, 1925, ch. 24.

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There must be many fathers around the country who have experienced the cruellest, most crushing rejection of all: their children have ended up supporting the wrong team.

Nick Hornby

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Fever Pitch

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Hornby, Nick. Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life. Victor Gollancz, 1992.

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She speaks, yet she says nothing.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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