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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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Language is wine upon the lips.

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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: January 25th, 1882

Died: March 28th, 1941

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