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“... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is at all sensitive, for people visit upon the postman all their first annoyance at receiving a couple of bills when they looked for a love-letter, and if a packet is insufficiently stamped they hand over the pennies as though to a despicable bandit, too outrageous to be denied, too groveling to be feared.”

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Happiness is an immunity.

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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

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Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

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“It is,” answered Laura with almost violent agreement. “If you are a were-wolf, and very likely you may be, for lots of people are…

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I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver…

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There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and…

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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.

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when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

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Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

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