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“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
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life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget:
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
“She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!”
“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on,”
we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.