"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash."

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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash."

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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."

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"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."

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"All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests."

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"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."

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"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."

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"I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery."

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"As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers."

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"All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic."

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