“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.