Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
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I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
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I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on a charge of kleptomania, I do steal, but, your Honor, only from the very best stores.
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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
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There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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