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Walden
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
“What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“I was doing the wrong of never wanting or trying to better. And now I see that I have been letting things go as the would for a long time. Whatever came into my head I did and whatever didn’t come into my head I didn’t do.”
― The Princess and Curdie
― The Princess and Curdie
“It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dissipate. I did not connect the two at that time. First, I simply noticed that I didn’t need to sleep so much. It took a while before I realized that in addition to my improved energy level, there was a direct correlation between chewing on mental garbage and putting garbage in my mouth.”
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