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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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Bu'' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the ''Buts'' that could be said.
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refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
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A letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone, without corporal friend.
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Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
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A ''should'' is a ''have to'' with no teeth; it is dead energy.
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A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
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