"I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that."
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"Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it."
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"Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial."
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"Liberty must not be abused."
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"strength and beauty must go hand in hand"
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"Love is a beautifier."
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"I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women."
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"Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here."
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"I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods."
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"They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven."
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"Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair."
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"... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man."
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"I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them."
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"I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me."
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"I wish I had no heart, it aches so."
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"She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable."
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"But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters."
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"So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her."
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"... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been"
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"It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer."
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