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Every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing. [...] We are descended from this. This is our father. Some of our guilt is absorbed in our ancestry. What chance did we have?

The whole valley, the whole West was that way. It was a time when the past had lost its sweetness and its sap. You'd go a long road before you'd find a man, and he very old, who wished to bring back a golden past. Men were notched and comfortable in the present, hard and unfruitful as it was, but only as a doorstep into a fantastic future.

1900 - Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

"The one present and all-absorbing passion of my soul was Eleanor; beside her, no rival could enter. I shuddered at the possibility of loving a man so utterly, and then placing myself at his mercy for life"

"A capacity for worship implies much, and results in much"