I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas. 'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true.
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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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