English, Classics

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Why sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person. Then. How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth. The lowest and viol alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside science. My boy is made up of mistakes but they are mistakes which it is useful to make because they lead little by little to the truth. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. My day has been too long in the morning. I saw the sons of the unarmed, happy and strong and yet before the sun has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans? The simple fact was that Oliver instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much and wasn't a fair way of being reduced for life to a state of brutal stupidity and solemnness by the ill usage he had received.