We are not born for ourselves alone; a part of us is claimed by our nation, another part by our friends. On Duties
How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago! Book VII
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.” A Hunger Artist
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