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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

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California is an Italy without its art.

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

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An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

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And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.

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He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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