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Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

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The American woman is a monstrosity.

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"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

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Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.

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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

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In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

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Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

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The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

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Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

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Why then we should drop into poetry.

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But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

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The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

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Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

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Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

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I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

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Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

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... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.

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I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.

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