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"The shoemaker, in 'The Relapse,' tells Lord Foppington that his lordship is mistaken in supposing that his shoe pinches."&mdash;.

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."&mdash;.

"All history shows that reforms in government must not be expected from those who sit serenely on the social mountain-tops, enjoying the benefits of the existing order of things. Even the divine author of our religion found his followers, not among the self-complacent Pharisees, but among the lowly-minded fishermen."&mdash;.

"Let wealth and commerce, law and learning, die. But give us back our old nobility."&mdash;.

"Truth wears no mask, bows at no human shrine, seeks neither place nor applause; she only asks a hearing."&mdash;.

"Take fast hold of Instruction; let her not go; keep her; for she is thy life."&mdash;

"But the instant the world (that dread jury) are impanelled, and called to look on and be umpires in the scene, so that nothing is done by 23