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Upon Quotes by Willa Cather
- No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
- The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us…
- Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a…
- Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.
- One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's…
- He had seen the end of an era,the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So…
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