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Hope Mirrlees quotes: A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

Hope Mirrlees quotes: Why is Melancholy like Honey? Because it is very sweet, and it is culled from Flowers.

Why is Melancholy like Honey? Because it is very sweet, and it is culled from Flowers.

Hope Mirrlees quotes: There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

Hope Mirrlees quotes: There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.

There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.

Hope Mirrlees quotes: But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.

But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.

Hope Mirrlees quotes: Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

Hope Mirrlees quotes: A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

Hope Mirrlees quotes: And the man who remains calm inevitably takes command of a situation.

And the man who remains calm inevitably takes command of a situation.

Hope Mirrlees quotes: His own way to a sick man is what grass is to a sick dog.

His own way to a sick man is what grass is to a sick dog.

Hope Mirrlees quotes: Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

Hope Mirrlees quotes: Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Hope Mirrlees quotes: So fine a medicine is the will to action.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

Hope Mirrlees quotes: Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.