Newspapers ... chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever. The Critic as Artist
I have no wish to take life, not even human life. Animal Farm
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. The Fellowship of the Ring
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. Human, All Too Human
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