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“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to weave.”
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“Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?”
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“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.”
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“... a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.”
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“... without convulsion or sigh, the frail tenement was left vacant of its spiritual inhabitant.”
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“A day of bliss is quickly told, / A thousand would not make us old / As one of sorrow doth — / It is by cares, by woes and tears, / We round the sum of human years — ...”
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“... she had an intellect masculine in its range and detachment — a type of intellect possessed by some women in all ages, not, as they are apt to suppose it, the peculiar possession of modern women.”
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“The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?”