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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer