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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, o ...
Like many other widows, she had an unwholesome wish to marry again.
Now narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyra ...
None but a maid is roused by a love song. And this was a maid, an old maid.
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they ...
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lov ...
The truest splendors are not in outward things, but in ourselves.
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creature ...
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
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