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Mae West
"Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else"
— Mae West
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Aldous Huxley
"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
— Aldous Huxley
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Louisa May Alcott
"... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted."
— Louisa May Alcott (Rose in Bloom)
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Louisa May Alcott
"But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters."
— Louisa May Alcott (Rose in Bloom)
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J.R.R. Tolkien
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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J.R.R. Tolkien
"...oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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"There's no easy way to do this.
So do it right:
weep, laugh, watch, pray, love,
live, give thanks and praise;
comfort, mend, honor,
and remember."
— Thomas Lynch
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Mignon McLaughlin
"True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive."
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Louisa May Alcott
"...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well."
— Louisa May Alcott (Rose in Bloom)
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Louisa May Alcott
"... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been"
— Louisa May Alcott (Rose in Bloom)
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Louisa May Alcott
"The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps."
— Louisa May Alcott (Rose in Bloom)
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Louisa May Alcott
"All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful."
— Louisa May Alcott (Rose in Bloom)
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"When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win."
— Henry Youngman
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"Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that."
— Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
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"Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily."
— Jean Toomer
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Jane Austen
"And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
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Jane Austen
"...for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
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George Orwell
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
— George Orwell
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"Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, \ And there are words not made with lungs"
— Richard Crashaw
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H.L. Mencken
"Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him."
— H.L. Mencken
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"Believe me, if you’re a teenager, you’re always in the damned woods. Literally, you’re in the woods — probably too much you’re in the woods. And metaphorically you’re in the woods, in your life."
— Jay Parini
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