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Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to.”
~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Bartleby” (1853), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987).

One of many instances in which Bartleby uses this phrase to refuse to work. ~

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One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.
~ William Wordsworth, The Excursion.Book iv. ~

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~ Arthur C. Clarke ~

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The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.
~ Letter to Prince Charles, William Harvey ~

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Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
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The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals.
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