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" A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it. "
Know
Never
Man
" He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. "
Who
He
Silence
" How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us? "
Fall
Good Luck
Great
" If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank. "
Him
Dream
Crank
" Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. "
Liberty
Inequality
Heart
" In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere. "
Trying
America
Europe
" Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? "
Worth
Blinds
Observe
" It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. "
Doom
Still
Small
" Primitive societies without religion have never been found. "
Been
Found
Never
" Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. "
Stay
Others
Some People
" The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. "
Best
Happiness
Greatest
" The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. "
You
Sense
Friends
" The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection. "
Man
Respect
Wise Man
" The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. "
Me
Books
Things
" There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things. "
World
Will
Up
" The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. "
Man
Interesting
Interested
" Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step. "
Affair
Tomorrow
Start
" We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these. "
Space
Only
Moment
" What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. "
Public
American
Happy
" Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. "
Goodness
Never
Wisdom
" You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. "
Find
Born
Great
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