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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world...more

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I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, ...more

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The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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Life for both sexes--and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement--is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for giganti...more

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Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you ...more

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...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

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It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Eithe...more

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Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was ...more

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But it would have been a surprise, not only to Katherine herself, if some magic watch could have taken count of the moments spent in an entirely diffe...more

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But it would have been a surprise, not only to katherine herself, if some magic watch could have taken count of the moments spent in an entirely diffe...more

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What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?

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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.