“Why do men hug words to their hearts after the living truth has long since fled from them?”
Preface, p. 18, sentence 5.
The Christian Agnostic (1965)
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“Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.”
Vol. II, Ch. XX, p. 449.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)

Dijeron que antiguamente
se fue la verdad al cielo;
tal la pusieron los hombres,
que desde entonces no ha vuelto.
En dos edades vivimos
los propios y los ajenos:
la de plata los estraños,
y la de cobre los nuestros.
Act I, sc. iv. Translation from Alan S. Trueblood and Edwin Honig (ed. and trans.) La Dorotea (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1985) p. 23.
La Dorotea (1632)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 103.

Reputation
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy

Quia et ipsi sunt ego. "Since they too are myself"
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, pp. 431-432

“His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder