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• The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
• That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great…
• For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of…
• It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its…
• A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
• What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes…
• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without…
• Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

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