Easy reading is damned hard writing.
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Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and it is never attained.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden ... It is sad that nature will play such tricks with us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, tricking us to the heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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