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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
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"Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed."
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"I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying."
Now
"I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear."
End
"They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous."
Beauty
"Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?"
Old
"On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them."
London
"Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit."
Life
"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
Houses
"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."
Population
"Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery."
Being
"I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on."
Age
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