"There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth."
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"Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures."
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"If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy."
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"Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth."
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"The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument."
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"When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she."
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"In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell."
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"There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth."
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"The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was."
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"What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?"
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