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"He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures."
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"To care is our endless sense if duty."
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"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."
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"Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel."
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"We have to make it a personal responsibility to eradicate ignorance from our society."
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"Thou shalt not stand idly by."
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"Why was I chosen?''Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."
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"If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves."
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"When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready."
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"He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act."
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"Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates."
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"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
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"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Life
"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."
Life
"Deep experience is never peaceful."
Experience
"He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures."
Duty
"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."
Man
"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
Money
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Life
"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."
Life
"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
People
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