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"I am beginning to think there are two kinds of people, ' she said. I waited. 'Those who forgive themselves too easily but will not forgive others.' 'And?' I asked. 'Those that forgive others too easily but will not forgive themselves."
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"A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener's enemy."
"Besides, I seemed to hold two lives-the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter."
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