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"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."

"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."

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"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."


"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."


"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."


"I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel; under which they allow her to go unlamented to her grave."


"Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike."


"If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained."


"Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm."
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