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“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
― Absalom and Achitophel
― Absalom and Achitophel
“So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
“If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
“But these vague whisperings may arise from Mr. Snagsby's being, in his way, rather a meditative and poetical man; loving to walk in Staple Inn in the summer time; and to observe how countrified the sparrows and the leaves are... and to remark (if in good spirits) that there were old times once, and that you'd find a stone coffin or two, now, under that chapel, he'd be bound, if you was to dig for it.”
― Bleak House
― Bleak House
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