“Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.”
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“Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.”
“A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.”
“Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.”