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“It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.”
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“His speech flows not from vanity or lust of praise, but from sheer necessity; — the reservoir is full, and runs over.”
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“She was tight as the paper on the wall, as a matter of fact.”
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“... habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.”
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“Sympathy is a sweet thing.”
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“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.”
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“A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.”
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“It is pleasant to have people love you even when they don't know you; but of far more value is the love of a friend who knows you and still loves you.”