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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million … but they are, singly or together, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

Etiam disiecti membra poetae.

Etiam disiecti membra poetae.

Exegi monumentum aere perennius.

Atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum.

Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.

Ut pictura poesis.

Ut pictura poesis.

Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus.

Semper ad eventum festinat et in medias res Non secus ac notas auditorem rapit.

Proicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba.

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est.

Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis Purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter Adsuitur pannus.

Brevis esse laboro,