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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.

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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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Necessity knows no Sunday.

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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

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[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

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