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Excessive literary production is a social offense.
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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