Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон

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"Even in beauty there exists the power of virtue."

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"I number not the hours, unless sunny."

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"But in understanding your natural condition, use the means which are proper to it; and pretend not to govern by any other way than by that which constitutes you governor."

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"The spirit of man is more penetrating than logical, and gathers more than it can garner."

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"Furl your sails, and let the next boat carry you to the shore."

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The object of parochial reform is not that of economy alone;

not merely to reduce poor-rates.  The ratepayer ought to remember that the more he wrests from the grip of the sturdy mendicant, the more he ought to bestow on undeserved distress.  Without the mitigations of private virtue, every law that benevolists could make would be harsh.

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"Now this, now that, distracts the active mind."