Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
("The Portrait of a Lady")
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
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He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
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