In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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