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" But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave. "

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" There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. "

" It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. "

" In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. "

" He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. "

" There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted. "

" Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. "

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" Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy. "

" Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. "

" The real business of life is trying to understand each other. "

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" Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. "

" War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. "

" It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. "

" He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. "

" Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. "

" It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. "

" For when a child is born the mother also is born again. "