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Only by constant efforts do we impede annihilation.

Hannah Hooke, The Hildebrandt Method.

“One can waste one’s time in worse ways, certainly.” That’s how Mr. Devlin stated it. Crisply, and in those very words.

Victoria Salt, A Compendium of Opening Lines.

A book needs to be about everything.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

In [Ockeghem’s] Missa Prolationem, when the first “hosanna” comes, it is as though everything else in the world stops.

Allison Twilley, The Fondo d’Oro.

“The wicked are punished by having to be themselves.”

Constantine Aviola, Chandu the Magician.