The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
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Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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Humor is wit and love.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities How wayward the decrees of Fate are How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are.
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