The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. Counsels and Maxims
There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk. Nicholas Nickleby
He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen. Dubliners
Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all. Mardi
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