"The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies."
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"Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth."
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"Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning."
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"Animals are such agreeable friends."
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"I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me"
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"...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth."
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"I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible."
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"The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature."
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"Things are achieved when they are well begun."
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"How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!"
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"Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days."
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"Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all."
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"I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men."
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"I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about."
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"When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks."
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"Time, like money, is measured by our needs."
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"Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin."
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"Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life."
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"Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being."
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"When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window."
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