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Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...

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What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth...

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Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...

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The emotional, loving, moody child had small chance of developing into a happy woman. Had she as a g...

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Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by...

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We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, i...

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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

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Robert BurnsCollected Poems of Robert Burns

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley.An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For pr...

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Robert BurnsCollected Poems of Robert Burns

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of ...

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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.