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Rachel’s Quotes

“Life is harsh, either way. You either hate the years that you’re given, or you love the years and they leave you.”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove

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“suppose my mother taught me a lesson that day; be grateful for what comes your way and don’t expect too much from life. A cynical viewpoint, some might think, especially in one so young.”
― Catherine McCarthy, Immortelle

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“This is the nature of temptation, you see. If it didn’t come in the exact form we desire, we would never consider it. All it takes to indulge in what we want is to turn a blind eye now and then.”
― S.P. Miskowski, Delphine Dodd

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“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and disposition of man. I find the result humiliating to me. — Mark Twain, Letters From Earth”
― Eric D. Goodman, Setting the Family Free

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“think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long. — Walt Whitman, Leaves”
― Eric D. Goodman, Setting the Family Free

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