"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job."

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"I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion."

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"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."

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"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."

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"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms."

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"Some folk want their luck buttered."

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"If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst."

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"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."

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"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

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"Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play."

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