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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

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The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

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Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!

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Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.

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But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.

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I wish these flies would piss off.

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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

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One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

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Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

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