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- I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
- What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
- I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in…
- I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another…
- ...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than…
- I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with…
- The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took…
- I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there…
- To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse…
- Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
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