We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.
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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.William Dean Howells
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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In a moment it had come, the first serious dispute of their wedded life. It had come as all such calamities come, from nothing, and it was on them in full disaster ere they knew.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
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