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... When We Are Misunderstood It Is Always Our Own Fault. What The Reader Wants Most Of All Is To Be Able To Grasp What We Think; But You Loftily Refuse To Comply.

The Masses Are Still Ungrateful Or Ignorant. They Prefer Murder, Poisonings, And Crimes Generally To A Literature Possessed Of Style And Feeling.

Ah! That Senate Is A World Of Ice And Darkness! It Votes The Destruction Of Peoples As The Simplest And Wisest Thing; For Its Members Themselves Are Moribund.

Faith Is Like Love; When You Want It You Can't Find It, And You Find It When You Least Expect It.

... What Is There Over Which The Incomparable Beauty Of Childhood Would Not Triumph?