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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so ...

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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...

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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...

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Santiago Ramón y CajalAdvice for a Young Investigator

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to h...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble me...

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We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little...

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Sigmund FreudCivilization and Its Discontents

Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long o...

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