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I had an excellent repast - th...

I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

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You think too much.' 'I suppos...

You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can't help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.

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She had always been fond of hi...

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

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She had her own way of doing a...

She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity.

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I recall this passage as the h...

I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her personality in glimpses and gleams, like a song sung in snatches, but now it was before me in a large rosy glow, as if it had been a full volume of sound. I heard the whole of the air, and it was sweet fresh music, which I was often to hum over.(Sir Edmund Orme)

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The faculty of attention has u...

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, 'Look at me.' Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.

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Life being all inclusion and c...

Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.

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I have lived too long in forei...

I have lived too long in foreign parts

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It had been agreed between the...

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

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One doesn't defend one's god: ...

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

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Art does not lie in copying na...

Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.

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I mean that everything this af...

I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.

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Live as you like best, and you...

Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.

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It is art that makes life, mak...

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

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No sovereign, no court, no per...

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might b

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Her imagination was by habit r...

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

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You must save what you can of ...

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

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Any point of view is interesti...

Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions; make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.

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To believe in a child is to be...

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.

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Experience is never limited, a...

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

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