It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.Joseph Conrad
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
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He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites--and escapes.
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