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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn betwe...more

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After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart...more

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They just keep trotting back and forth across the bridge thinking there is something better on the other side. If they'd hang head-down at the top of ...more

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There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

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Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice.