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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

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I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

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I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

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