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Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. - Thomas

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. – Thomas Carlyle

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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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Literary
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Thomas Carlyle
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If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. – Thomas Carlyle

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A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? – Stanislaw J. Lec

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Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be? – Author Unknown

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The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of a whole number. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction. – Aesop

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