Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.
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It matters little, she said, softly. To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve.
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There is no wealth, she went on, turning paler as she watched him, while her eyes grew yet more lustrous in their earnestness, that could buy these words of me, and the meaning that belongs to them. Once cast away as idle breath, no wealth or power can bring them back. I mean them I have weighed them and I will be true to what I undertake.
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