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" It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. "

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" If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. "

" I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth. "

" But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. "

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" Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. "

" Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. "

" No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. "

" There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. "

" Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. "

" The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. "

" It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. "

" What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. "

" Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. "

" The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. "

" The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. "

" The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice. "

" Breed is stronger than pasture. "

" He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. "

" Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. "

" Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. "

" Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. "

" That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. "

" Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. "

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" Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. "

" No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. "

" In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. "

" The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. "