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Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

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What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

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A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we...more

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It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the ex...more

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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

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She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

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...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo...more

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Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–however it may come, these minds will give it a habi...more