"Greatness once and forever has down with opinion."
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"Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom."
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"Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there."
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"Life is a series of surprises."
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"I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction."
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"A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution."
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"I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy."
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"The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned."
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"The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other."
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"Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much."
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"I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you."
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"The best part of health is fine disposition"
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"How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one"
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"The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community"
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"Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for"
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"The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration."
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"The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature."
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"Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it."
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"Every opinion reacts on him who utters it."
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"Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life."
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