"There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor."
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"I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
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"And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen."
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"Far from the world I walk, and from all care."
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"Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful."
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"God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer."
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"Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?"
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"It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to."
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"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?"
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"All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it."
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"The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it."
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"We broke the world to make it whole."
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"I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God."
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"Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind of novel: a human attempt to transfer or convey some part or version of their world of noumenon to another’s world of noumenon."
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"The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple."
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"America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy."
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"The world exists for the education of each man."
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"The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade."
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"The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine."
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"The world is not outside you."
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