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"Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them."
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"We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to."

"Don't judge people by their profession, otherwise you'll end up with more enemies than friends."

"She was so stupid. Such a stupid, stupid girl.For ever thinking she could be admired, adored, or noticed. For every thinking she could be anything at all."

"You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake."

"In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us."

"We never look at people with the eye of God instead we look at them from their past, what they did wrong."
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."


"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."


"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."


"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."


"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way."


"A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house."
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