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They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

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Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

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I wish these flies would piss off.

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It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

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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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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, River and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside. Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown- Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

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Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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