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“She wanted to get away from herself, and conversation was the only means of escape that she knew.”
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“Whatever you do to recover from a loss, people will be critical because they believe that the only way to recover is their way. And you will even run into some people who should be run into by rhinos because they actually don't want to see you get over your tragedy at all; grief is a spectator sport for them.”
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“No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves happy and satisfied; but afterward, when the froth and foam have subsided, we discover that the goblet is not more than half-filled with the golden liquid that was poured into it.”
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“Death pays all debts.”
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“It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either ...”
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“Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.”
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“A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...”
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“What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.”