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...world, and their duplicity is never discovered. Too many there are that are like this author, but they are growing less and less in number. Silently the celestial policemen, among whom I am one, are carrying them to their reward. They are called the Lotos-Eaters of Earth.- But the East is brightening; the day is near. I must be away...
...must believe that believe that this was the original of all dreams. Since that dream, indeed, millions of sons of Adam have dreamed fancies that would create scores of Arabian Nights; have been the heroes nightly of thrilling adventures, which. were they written out, would cover the earth with a carpet of crocus-colored literature; have invented in dreamland enough mechanical appliances to increase the poverty of civilized lands to an extraordinary degree: have delivered in sleep more eloquently persuasive harangues than Demosthenes or Cicero ever imagined possible; in short, have done in dreams everything that man has done...
...conscious superiority, he tells me of them, I become so jealous as almost to grow to hate him. Why, a short time ago he dreamed of the end of the world; and the rocks were cleft, as he stood before the old University library at Cambridge. Suddenly the earth yawned, and there bustled out of the chasm, with a roar from a long silver trumpet, and the tintinnabulous sound of bells, the archangel, clad in white robes of dazzling brilliancy. From Thayer and Matthews and Hollis and Weld and Stoughton and Holworthy and Grays, rushed the frightened students. They stopped...
...children are growing up to be more supercilious than their father. They are still more cold and haughty. They smile at the people as they pass by to the church and say 'How foolish! We are the only wise ones of the earth.' They have no regard for any but the few that are like them, and they are few indeed...
...scheme, though imagination represented it just as being fond of a pretty, lively, black little lady, who, to oblige me, stayed in Edinburg, and I very genteelly paid her expenses," This horror of immorality lasted until he had freed himself from the woman. There is no possession on earth so valuable as an india-rubber conscience...