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Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

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I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

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Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

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Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

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But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

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... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

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Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.

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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

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When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

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Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

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Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

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I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

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Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

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I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

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In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

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The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

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He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk — that anything — could give him so much happiness.

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