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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

"Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive."

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
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"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
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