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"Personally of course I regret everything.Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need,not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy,not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust,not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear,not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly.An ordure, from beginning to end."

"Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?"

"But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart."

"I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty."

"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse."

"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."

"Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her."

"I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children."

"He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure."
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"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."


"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."


"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."
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