I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was inadmisible, since it was the one thing that the Family, as an institution, could not do.
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In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.
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