It appears that with his curious voice, his ways, he decided to brazen it out, to be himself with an ornamental courage and an impressive conceit,
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She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.Elizabeth Hardwick
Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self.... In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires....
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
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Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
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