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“Let me be sure that I am doing the right thing, and not merely the thing I want to do.”

Irony! My favorite! It’s more than irony, it’s a “turning the other cheek” bit.

We are capable of anything.

Talk about short and snappy chapters where nothing at all happens.

Well, he’s crazy.

“The price, under the kindly and expert supervision of Tom Warden, was fifteen dollars an acre. But Auntie Sue always laughingly insisted that she really paid fifty cents an acre for the land and fourteen dollars and a half an acre for the sunsets.”

“Not the royalty of caste and court and station with their glittering pretenses of superiority and their superficial claims to distinction,–I do not mean that; I mean that true royalty which needs no caste or court or station but makes itself felt because it IS.”