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But she knelt by the grave for a few minutes making a more serious, less certain inward prayer for her dead. It seemed to fly upward and vanish in the void, echoless as a feather.
“Walt Whitman, who ardently followed the Overland Campaign: “When did [Grant] ever turn back? He was not that sort; he could no more turn back than time! . . . Grant was one of the inevitables; he always arrived; he was invincible as a law: he never bragged—often seemed about to be defeated when he was in fact on the eve of a tremendous victory”
― Grant
― Grant
“Happiness is only for the honest-that’s a law that runs through matter as undetectable as gravity”
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“Me? Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory—don’t you think so, Miss Taggart?” “No,” said Dagny, “I don’t.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“Free scientific inquiry? The first adjective is redundant.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“At the end of every prayer introduced the entreaty oftener addressed to man than to God: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us." Yet in spite of his earnest prayers, Dantes remained a prisoner”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
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