"Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less."
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"I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing."
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"Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I cannot help you... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman."
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"All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots."
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"Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch."
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"Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!"
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"Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does."
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"the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it."
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"What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great."
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"I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still."
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"Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us."
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"It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years."
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"It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for."
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