There is no force but argument in the case, and it is reason, not the will of another, that gives the law.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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Ignorance alone makes monsters or bug-bears our actual acquaintances are all very common-place people.
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Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.
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