The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over e… — Quoted

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“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”

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Thomas Carlyle

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

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