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The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.
The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.
Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.
Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.
It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.
Hope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.
We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.
We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.
Each hour comes with some little faggot of God's will fastened upon its back.
There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.
I feel like Vertigo is a place to have an adult discussion for adult readers.
This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.
It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.
Bow Wow Wow were one of the few punk bands who weren't afraid to embrace pop.
The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.
Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?
'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.
Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.
The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.
And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.
A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.