Nothing could more clearly give the measure of the distance that the world had travelled.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.Edith Wharton
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
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If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
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As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.
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Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was reading, and one book after another dropped from his hand. Suddenly, among them, he lit on a small volume of verse which he had ordered because the name had attracted him The House of Life. He took it up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffebly tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions.
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The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was inadmisible, since it was the one thing that the Family, as an institution, could not do.
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