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Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Literature Illuminate life Whom books A necessity
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One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

Passes through The world Knowing few Important things
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Human relationships flourish and decay, quickly and silently, so that those concerned scarcely know how brittle, or how inflexible, the ties that bind them have become.

Human relationship Flourish Decay Those concerned
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Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.

Women May show Some discrimination They sleep
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Brains and hard work are of very little avail, Jenkins, unless you know the right people.

Brains Hard work Little avail You know
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A woman’s power of imitation and adaptation make her capable of confronting you with your own arguments after even the briefest acquaintance: how much more so if a state of intimacy exists

Woman's power Adaptation Her capable Confronting you
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Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.

Always dismissed The idea Intelligence A woman
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In short, the persons we see most clearly are not necessarily those we know best.

The persons We see Most clearly Not necessarily
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It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

By believing The truth Changing form Condition
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To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

To write Convert The real Into words
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What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

Wretched memory Remembers The words Forgets
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Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Who attempts Relate His life Loses himself
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The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.

Great principle Justice Prevent crime Punish it
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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Female mind The brain An organ Of sex
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Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.

Death Your imagination Visualize A world
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When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

All usefulness Is over Is assured An unavoidable
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But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way,it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

Say what I feel A relief The effort
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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

Sick society Have difficulty Demonstrating A healthy
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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Swallow Follow Old doctrine New propaganda
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

Man's honor Kill A woman Satisfy it
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Through it,literature we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Through it Literature We know The past
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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Attain happiness Another world Believe something Secure it
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Woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body

Woman Should stand Beside man Comrade
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But only this-that people who are utterly ignorant will believe anything-which you certainly knew before.

People Utterly ignorant Believe anything
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What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

Want Possess Religion Me
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Act Comfort Luxury Life
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Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Feelings Analyze Worse Smell
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There are two freedoms—the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Freedoms False Man Free
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Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.
Do Noble things Dream Day
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What’s the use of doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

Use Doing Kindness Day
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Do today’s duty, fight today’s temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Do Today Duty Temptation
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Thank God Something Do
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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Men Succeed Life Cheerful
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Great True Friends Mean
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Except Living man Wonderful Book
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Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Pain Evil Conuers Us
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Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Friendship Broken Rarely Same way
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...People's souls make their bodies, just as a snail makes its shell.

People's Souls Bodies Makes
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The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Wonderful Strongest World Know
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Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

Cheerfulness Significance Good health Clear conscience
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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Duty Wait Returns Fresh
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

One success To spend Your life Own way
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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Three ingredient Good life Learning Earning
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

High heels Invented A woman Been kissed
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Heavy hearts Clouds Best relieved Letting of
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

You sell A man A book New life
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Real purpose Books The mind Own thinking
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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Beauty Lonely mind Shadow fleeting Never plan
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

No mistaking Real book Like falling In love
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There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

A heaven This earth We inhabit We read
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