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but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

All these are crushing questions; but whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

a wise man could help me to see which

The impetus with which inclination became resolution was heightened by those little events of the day which had roused her discontent with the actual conditions of her life.

She was not in the least teaching Mr. Casaubon to ask if he were good enough for her, but merely asking herself anxiously how she could be good enough for Mr. Casaubon.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time.

She looks up to him as an oracle now, and by-and-by she will be at the other extreme. All flightiness!

Yet Lady Chettam gathered much confidence in him. He confirmed her view of her own constitution as being peculiar, by admitting that all constitutions might be called peculiar, and he did not deny that hers might be more peculiar than others.