“Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
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“People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.”
― A Word in Season, Volume 2
― A Word in Season, Volume 2
“He was in the frame of mind when a weaker man would have started writing poetry.”
― Summer Moonshine
― Summer Moonshine
“Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.”
― Summer Lightning
― Summer Lightning
“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
― The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay
― The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay
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