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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

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You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

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None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

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