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"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
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"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."

"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."

"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."

"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

"For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing."

"Progress is discovering what you can do without."

"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."

"Fewer the necessities, better your life will be."
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"He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man."

"Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear."

"In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception."

"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

"Wishes are held to be ominous; according to which belief the order of the world is so arranged that if you have an impious objection to a squint, your offspring is more likely to be born with one; also, that if you happen to desire a squint, you would not get it. This desponding view of probability the hopeful entirely reject, taking their wishes as good and sufficient security for all kinds of fulfilment."

"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."
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