But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that … - George Saintsbury

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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

George Saintsbury

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

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The hardest thing to attain. . . is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

Appreciation, Attain, Difference, Differences, Hardest

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

Writing, People, Literature, Write, Lay

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

Cooking, Dinner, Food, Serious, Think, Thinking

But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

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The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

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Amber Rose

I love to eat and I don't believe in denying myself, so I have to work out. I'm not obsessed with it, I don't have a trainer or do any of the fancy classes, but I usually put on my iPod and run on the treadmill for an hour a few days a week.

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Jonathan Swift

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.

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Rae Armantrout

Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these groups. This can be good. It forces the poet and the audience to think. But it can also be dangerous. It can turn into a branding device so that potential readers believe they know all they need to know once they know you've been associated with a certain group or position. It can freeze things in place. That's where thinking stops.

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