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[T]hat moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of nig ...
Major sex differences in intellectual function seem to lie in patterns of ability rather than in overall level of intelligence (IQ ...
To me the "female principle" is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule b ...
The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivab ...
Are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, part ...
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more,
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere,
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In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to conven ...
You must train the children to their studies in a playful manner, and without any air of constraint, with the further object of di ...
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than a ...
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