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• There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
• Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity…
• Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
• Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic…
• Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is…
• The surest sign of fitness is success.
• Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated,…
• Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to…
• When the curtain falls no one is ready
• No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might…
• We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.
• Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

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