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She had a singular spaciousness of mind in which nothing little or mean could live.
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I can only say that you must have totally renounced all trust in the operations of the human reason; an attitude which, while it is bad Christianity and also infernal nonsense, is oddly enough bad Positivism too, unless I misunderstand that system.
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When their lordships asked Bacon
How many bribes he had taken
He had at least the grace
To get very red in the face.
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It looked bad when the Duke of Fife
Left off using a knife;
But people began to talk
When he left off using a fork.
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Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?
When the scheming, indomitable brain of Sigsbee Manderson was scattered by a shot from an unknown hand, that world lost nothing worth a single tear; it gained something memorable in a harsh reminder of the vanity of such wealth as this dead man had piled up—without making one loyal friend to mourn him, without doing an act that could help his memory to the least honor. But when the news of his end came, it seemed to those living in the great vortices of business as if the earth, too, shuddered under a blow.
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There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.
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Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Born:
July 10, 1875
Died:
March 30, 1956
(aged 80)
Bio:
E. C. Bentley was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.
Known for:
Trent's Last Case (1913)
Trent's Own Case (1936)
Trent Intervenes (1938)
Biography for Beginners (1905)
The Scoop and Behind the Screen
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