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"He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure."
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"He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure."
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"A man of calm is like a shady tree.People who need shelter come to it."
"Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath."
"I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself."
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"The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing."
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"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."
"One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left."
"I might show it to you, but you'd never see it. The privilege isn't given to every one; it's not enviable. It has never been seen by a young, happy, innocent person like you. You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it."
"She couldn't have told you whether it was because she was afraid, or because such a voice in the darkness seemed of necessity a boon; but she listened to him as she had never listened before; his words dropped deep into her soul."
"Her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it."
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