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Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

Happy Successful themselves Misfortunes
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Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Loyalty Obedience Wisdom Arbitrary power
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Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

Come Poor Little heart Brave
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As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

She realized Grew Thankful
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A girl in love will do a good deal.

Girl In love Good deal
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No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

Loves me Care for me Mother
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Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words
Describe My home Charm Words
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Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.
Bed Arose Morning Came hope
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And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.

Shuddered away Enduring love Mean
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Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.
Nothing Like Eating Equalizing men
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Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

Similarity Opinion Perfection love
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I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.

Self indulgent Worthy Hatred
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I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

Three lilies Valley gathered Person
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I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.

Wish God Ask him Bless
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Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing.

Every mile Redolent Associations Missed
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It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

Believe Error Infinitely Hypocrite
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But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafless - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.
Trees Gorgeous Autumnal leafless
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One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.
One May Clogged Honey
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If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.

Injure her Await Police man God
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..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

Loved her Return Have
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How different men were to women!
Different Men Women
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She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

Fierce pleasure Idea Unwelcome truths Shape performance
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Oh dear! how she could have loved him if he had but been different, with a difference which she felt, on reflection, to be one that went low—deep down.

Oh dear Loved Difference Reflection
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Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.

Love me Sweet Never Be better
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But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests.

Mind Long directed Rigid Unable
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I think that if advice is good it's the best comfort.

Think Advice Good Comfort
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All sorts of thoughts cross one's mind—it depends upon whether one gives them harbour and encouragement

Thought Mind Harbour Encouragement
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If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends

Sorrowing Wanting sympathy Complicated trouble
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. . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Seemed Prayed God Joy
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It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young, afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious.

First changes Mystery Time Young
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Women are queer, unreasoning creatures, and are just as likely as not to love a man who has been throwing away his affection.

Women Unreasoning creatures Love a man
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... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...

Patriotism Consist Hating Other nations
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficulties and disagreeables in everything.

Little credulity Life Smoothly
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There is always a pleasure in unraveling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

Pleasure Unraveling a mystery Gossamer clue
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The morning brought more peace if it did not entirely dissipate fear.

Morning More peace Dissipate fear
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People admire talent, and talk about their admiration. But they value common sense without talking about it, and often without knowing it.

People admire Talent Admiration Value
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But her little white thin hand lay in mine; and we understood each other without words.

White Hand Mine Understood
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As far as one knows of heroines from history. I'm capable of a great jerk, an effort, and then a relaxation—but steady every-day goodness is beyond me. I must be a moral kangaroo!

Heroines History Capable Effort
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He had never known her value, he thought, till now.
Never Known Value Thought
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Alright Born Die Getting
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Capitalism Garden Getting Plant
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Holding Least Metaphors Most
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Able Being Causes Class
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Against Behavior Books Homosexual
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
Always Lies Live Stories
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

Another Choice Control Created
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

Alien Believe Different DifferentPeople
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Again All-Time Answer Ask
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Continue Elaborate Elite Fall
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Acting Any Citizen CitizenKane
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