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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Good Book Opened Expectation
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

One's Life Intresting Entertainment
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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

Time Life Seasons Perfect
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

Passions Organized Hostile Freedom
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Education Inclusive Introspective Populations
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

Cities Advantages Hostile Liberal
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

Anger Resentment Animal Blood
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

Whatsoever Currents Flowing Directions
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

Author Reader Depths Thoughts
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

Pity Mother Name Implies
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Contents Bookcase History Ancestral
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If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
Book Good Read Great
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I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Feel Lending Book Fathers
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I wanted to discuss my life with him not as a patient talking to an analyst but as if we were two literary critics discussing a novel.... I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.

Wanted Life Talking Critics
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Love, truth, beauty, wisdom, and consolation against death.

Love Truth Beauty Wisdom
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A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

Book Read Haunt Importune
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The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

Moment Book Lent Begin
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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Friends Stop Frank Useful
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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

One Paradoxes American Litrature
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The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Tension Yes No Can
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Time Nothing Children Obedience
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The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Like Book Slowly Read
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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Something Real People Stage
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For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

Years Using Role Sex-object
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The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Divorce World Tragedy Necessarily
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Public institutions represent our commonwealth and those in positions of authority in them do so in trust. Hence it must be treated as such.

Public institutions Represent Our commonwealth In positions
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I am also hopeful that death during childbirth will be a thing of the past, and our children will no longer have to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases or other common ailments.

Hopeful Death During childbirth A thing
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Patient safety is paramount in all health care settings and should not be compromised.

Patient safety Paramount Health care Settings
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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

Must teach My daughter Same lesson Lose
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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

You remember You want Your heart Allow
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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

My mother Not believe Be anything Be me
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Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

Think Too much You believe More choices
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If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

Recognize evil Other people I have Become evil
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You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

Have pride Each day Not arrogance Born with
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When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

Already believe Suddenly stop Loyal friend
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They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

Happiness lies A cave Country In love
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We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

Are living A word Everything Society
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While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

Good Speak well Better The truth
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If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

Don't have The possibility Listening Music
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I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

Always known Was born Sing A child
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.

Always been Science Help man I play
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In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

Set myself The objective Doing What i feel
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I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

I live My children One rule Go away
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People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

People wonder Relationship Lack of Sight
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I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

I have Face life Found passion Must rediscover
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I want to have time for myself, my family and my friends. It's important because in order to sing well, you must have inspiration, and inspiration comes from life, from living.

Have time For myself My family Friends
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I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.

I consider The voice A gift The heavens
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When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.

You sing People want Can hope Be great
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I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.

I prefer My country Free Independent way
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You can be great only if it is your destiny.

You can Be great Your destiny
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