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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven.
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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
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There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments.
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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