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“[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! — an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.”
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“She could not say whether being with this man was like finding something new or rediscovering something forgotten.”
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“Father! blessed word.”
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“This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.”
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“Hospitality shares what it has. It does not atempt to give what it has not.”
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“If you're so successful, why do you feel like a fake?”
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“It's not good to take sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the samenesses.”
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“The last burning seed of the sun had been dropped into the swamp of the meadow to the west, and in the idle water a flame grew. At the moment of dusk, remote and cool, like a frost-flower in the tranquil pastures of the sky, stood the evening star.”