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This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

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Thomas de Quincey

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

Absurdly, Beer, Drinking, Man, Men, Sobriety
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There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.

Firsts, Moving, Power, Rudder, Understanding

Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.

Book, Choices, Enormous, Facts, Incident, Symptoms

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

Certain, Medicine, Mysterious, Power, Progressive, Words

The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

Feelings, Ideas, Organ, Relation, Style

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

Dust, Feet, Mansion, Palingenesis, Poet, Poetry
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