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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

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The mind of man is capable of anything.

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Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

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I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, that life begun in humblesurroundings, rich in gene...more

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There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you m...more

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He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of...more

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And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and...more

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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a tr...more

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Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him...more

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I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--the...more

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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...

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This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said 'Yes', without raising his ey...more

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Never test another man by your own weakness.