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

"Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got."

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."
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"I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have."

"She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel."

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm."

"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."

"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."

"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."

"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."
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