'Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves?' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds.
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We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
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Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
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