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“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget... Here we are on this earth, with only a few decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worth-while actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. For life is too short to be little.”
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“I don't think I can attempt to say now what it was. Some day—perhaps.”
― The Wings of the Dove
― The Wings of the Dove
“She never wanted the truth . . . She wanted you. She would have taken from you what you could give her, and been glad of it even if she had known it false. You might have lied to her from pity, and she have seen you and felt you lie, and yet—since it was all for tenderness—she would have thanked you and blessed you and clung to you but the more. For that was your strength, my dear man—that she loves you with passion.”
― The Wings of the Dove
― The Wings of the Dove
“Successful people enjoy the journeys they embark on, irrespective of whether they reach their destination or not.”
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“Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon”
― Behold a Fair Woman
― Behold a Fair Woman
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