There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life.
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She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion,--when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent.
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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
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Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
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This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths.
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