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Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

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Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.

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He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

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The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

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If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

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The poet should touch our heart by showing his own

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Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?

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