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I had rather go to a party than stay at home.

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I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

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I was born 'neath a clouded star.

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I arrived at Green Peace. Two children whom I should not have recognized as mine ran out to meet me.

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The widowed daughter of our host lost heavily by the failure of certain American securities. The tea to which we had been bidden was simply a cup of tea, served without a table.

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I take refuge in my books.

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Uncle John was right about me, when he said I ought not to marry.

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The false romance of the time made a tyrant to a childish imagination of the best and kindest of parents.

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I sometimes suspect him of having relations with another woman, and regret more bitterly the sacrifice which entailed upon me these months of fatigue and suffering.

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My little corner is so green and pretty, so quiet and hidden from all.

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My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.

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I was the first bridesmaid! Pearls, diamonds, silks, satins and laces!

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I have just heard the greatest thing I shall ever hear!

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Every wave as it dashed upon the shore seemed to tell a tale of days that will return no more.

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I am too lonely, too helpless, too orphaned to be deserted by you, my brother.

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I feel much excited, quite unsettled, sometimes a little frantic.

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We have acted more wisely than we would have done in marking out any eccentric course of our own and adhering to it.

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New England spunk seems to be pretty well up.

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I firmly resolved when I married you, to admit no thought, to cultivate no taste, in which you could not sympathize. You must know that my heart has been very loyal.

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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

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