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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: January 25th, 1882

Died: March 28th, 1941

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