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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but…
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It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those…
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For…
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad…
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