Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
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She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
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I prefer the large intention of an unskillful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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