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Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.

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Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

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Fear is the mother of foresight.

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If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

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Pessimism... is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

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If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if people showed their souls - how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!

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Once victim, always victim - that's the law!

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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

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