Truths and roses have thorns about them.
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
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Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
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When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
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