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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is cr...more

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It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

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Books are for nothing but to inspire

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She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

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To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endur...more