"Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else."
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"Some people are nobody's enemies but their own"
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"You are in every line I have ever read."
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"We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?"
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"Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low."
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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."
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"He would make a lovely corpse."
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"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."
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"There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch."
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"No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused"
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"Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort."
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"I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed."
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"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
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"If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish."
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"There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate."
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"The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself."
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"A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself."
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"Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough."
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"Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day."
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"He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten."
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