"But certain winds will make men's temper bad."
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"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
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"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
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"It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog."
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"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."
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"We want people to feel with us more than to act for us."
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"The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision."
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"Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others."
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"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."
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"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."
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"In every parting there is an image of death."
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"Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart."
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"Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."
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"Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others."
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"Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life."
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"In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race."
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"Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples."
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"With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame."
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"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being."
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"People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors."
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