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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. ↗

— Horace

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It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?' ↗

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

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Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them. ↗

— William Henry Hudson

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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