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"Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke."
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"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."
Crime

"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."
History

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
Art

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
Family

"Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."
Trust

"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."
Change

"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."
Religion

"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."
Life

"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
Patriotism

"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
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"Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us something unknown."
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"A moment of sadness is the best time for deepest reflection."
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"Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash."
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"Sadness is like sandpaper; it rubs at our sharper edges, softening and humbling us, making us ready for a coat of compassion."
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"I told Doreen I would not go to the show or the luncheon or the film premiere, but that I would not go to Coney Island either, I would stay in bed. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired."
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"His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh."
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"Mr.Holmes is another sad work unfortunately."
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"She [Mme Sazerat] did not offer her hand, but smiled at my mother with vague melancholy as one smiles at a playmate from one's childhood, but with whom all connection has been severed because she has lived a debauched life, married a jailbird or, worse still, a divorced man."
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"You can't be happy, you was prank again and again and you was just in a trap nothing else. That wasn't him, even this and that guy. You just killed the witnesses and few cops!"
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"I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world."
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