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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

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Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

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If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

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If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.

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The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

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When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

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He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

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Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

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How much does the universe weigh, when it fasts for infinity?

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The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

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He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

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I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

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Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

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Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

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An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

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Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

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