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I have been singing and writing poetry, so you may know that I have been happy, alas, am I not a selfish creature to prize these enjoyments as I do.

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I am forced to make myself an imaginary public, and to tell it the secrets of my poor little ridiculous brain.

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I had rather go to a theater than a party.

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The planed floor was smooth as glass-the music heavenly-the supper superb-we danced till two.

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We are getting up the Crochet Party, which is to meet once a fortnight for crochet and fun.

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I live in a place in which I have few social relations, and all too recent to be intimate.

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Seating myself at the piano, I made it ring out the Marseillaise with a will.

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I had rather hear Theodore Parker than go to the theater.

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That which I have seen in Rome and even in England leads me to believe that men have strangely mistaken the spirit in their zeal for the letter of Christianity.

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The Society of Good People is always Good Society.

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Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

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I esteem this century, now at its close, to have deserved a record among those which have been great landmarks in human history.

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The beaux are all gone, so that we are quite deserted.

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Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

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My book came out on Friday last. The title simply, Passion Flowers, was approved by Longfellow.

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I believe I shall live to see women in New York and some of the other states enfranchised, but not in Massachusetts.

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The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

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Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

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I turned against my New Testament and said, I know you all by heart!

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We must help our fellow man against the most cruel beast of all, the human tiger.

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