

“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”
― A Northern Light
― A Northern Light

“A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train

“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”
― White Night
― White Night

“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.”
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Listen to it carefully.”
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
― The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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