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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

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If way to the Better there be it exacts a full look at the Worst.

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Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration.

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I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for ...more

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All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.

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He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had be...more

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Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. Whi...more

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Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dra...more

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Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

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Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry world hardly called for...more

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Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighboring yeomen, the listener said, "Ah, Clym Yeobright: what is he doing now?' When the instinctive...more