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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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