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“ Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them ... ”
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“She nibbled away at her thought like a rabbit with a piece of lettuce.”
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“Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.”
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“[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge ...”
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“Life is not what you expected it to be.”
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“Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.”
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“But he had ceased already to value what he had, so immense was his desire for what was yet to come.”
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“... it would have been a Fault in her, not to have been Faulty.”