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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

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Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.

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You was a good man, and did good things.

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Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

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The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

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Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

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Some folk want their luck buttered.

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Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.

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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

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An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, in blast-beruffled plume.

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Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

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Had other aims than my delight.

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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

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