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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

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You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas, as he preached himself this sermon...more

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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us...more