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“Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”
—John Morley [1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn] (1838–1923)
“My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy ... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)
“God made man merely to hear some praise
Of what he’d done on those Five Days.”
—Christopher Morley (1890–1957)
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