How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
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Rapture of life ineffable, perfect--as if in the brier,
Leafless there by my door, trembled a sense of the rose.
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In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
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You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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