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"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."
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."
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"Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished."

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

"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."

"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves."

"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural."
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