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"It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen."
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"She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth."

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"Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for."

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"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."

"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery."

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