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We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this way preserv...more

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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resist...more

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The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

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When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheap...more

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It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every...more