All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.
("The Scarlet Letter")
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The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
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