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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty...
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then...
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow...
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From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder...
Quote #32998
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify...
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History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about...
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
Quote #11119
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to...