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Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.


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A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.



Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.



The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.



The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

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Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.



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