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The Wheels of Justice turn slowly but exceedingly fine.

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Thomas de Quincey

The public is a bad guesser.

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There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.

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Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.

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No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

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The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

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Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

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