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“There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.”
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“No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.”
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“... novelty, the subtlest spring of all passion.”
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“... where everybody is guilty, nobody is.”
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“The people we meet, especially the friends we keep, are sent to us for the mutual purpose of support and discovery.”
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“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them — with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”
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“Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!”
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“... you were trained to live in a society which doesn't exist, because no society is the same between yesterday and tomorrow.”