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“If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.”
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“True hospitality neither expects nor desires any return, and it is only the inhospitable that keep a debt and credit account.”
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“I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.”
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“Getting back to nature has its points. It makes civilization look very good.”
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“Traveling is a feast for the senses.”
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“... men do some things better, like reading maps, because only the male mind can conceive of one inch equalling one hundred miles.”
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“It's them that take advantage that get advantage i' this world ... ”
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“... we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.”