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her. Do we not shun the street version of a fine melody, or shrink from the news that the rarity—some bit of chiselling or engrav-ung perhaps—which we have dwelt on even with exultation in the trouble it has cost us to snatch glimpses of it is really not an uncommon thing, and may be obtained as an everyday possession? Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotion; 441

"That is the way with you political writers, Ladislaw—crying up a measure as if it were a universal cure, and crying up men who are a part of the very disease that wants curing."
"Why not? Men may help to cure themselves off the face of the land without knowing it, 437

What yall know abt double wielding middlemarch & acomaf

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettantism and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

"I just do what comes before me to do. I can't help people's ignorance and spite any more than Vesalius could. It isn't possible to square one's conduct to silly conclusions which nobody can foresee."

a fellow who wants to make a noise by pretending to go deeper than other people. The other day he was pretending to tap a man's brain and get quicksilver out of it."