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I might show it to you, but you'd never see it. The privilege isn't given to every one; it's not enviable. It has never been seen by a young, happy, i...more

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Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

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She’s the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She’s the self-made girl!(…)Well, to begin with, the self-made girl’s a new feature. ...more

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What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form.

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Before he went away, he had heard all about the self-made girl, and there was something in the picture that strongly impressed him. She was possible d...more

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Let us be vulgar and have some fun, let us invite the President.

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Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints.

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Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

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The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

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When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you to take up the cudgels in its defence. If you are d...more