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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
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Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
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Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -and one always secretes too much jelly.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.
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