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"What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!"
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"I have nothing to compain about. I am here to enjoy the breathtaking beauty of nature."

"It is unfortunate that many people today cannot sense the worth in people."

"When we don't see the value of a thing, we don't put the protective edge."

"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."

"You cannot truly enjoy a flower until you can see her inner beauty and feel her purpose of life."

"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."

"I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents."

"Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live."

"Jemima was not pretty, the flatness and shortness of her face made her almost plain; yet most people looked twice at her expressive countenance, at the eyes which flamed or melted at every trifle, at the rich colour which came at every expressed emotion into her usually sallow face, at the faultless teeth which made her smile like a sunbeam."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."


"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."


"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?"


"A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries."


"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
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