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"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves."
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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

"The world is "sick" with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it."

"Take responsibility for the city."

"When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read."

"Human for love and things for use But now days people use humans and love things."

"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
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"That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life."

"But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung."

"This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away."

"The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them."
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