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"Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman."
Woman
"Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
Life
"The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron."
Time
"History shows how feeble are barriers of paper."
History
"The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty."
Empire
"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."
Events
"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves."
People
"The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies."
War
"Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty."
Nation
"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."
Lie
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