It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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The best men are not consistent in good--why should the worst men be consistent in evilWilkie Collins
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
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This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
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The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
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The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.
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Sir John had his share150perhaps rather a large share150of the more harmless and amiable of the weaknesses incidental to humanity. Among these, I may mention as applicable to the matter in hand, an invincible reluctance150so long as he enjoyed his usual good health150to face the responsibility of making his will.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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