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I know what conscience is, to begin with. It is not what you told me it was. It is the divinest thing in us. Don’t sneer at it, Harry, any more,–at least not before me. I want to be good. I can’t bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.
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I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.- Charles Dickens
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I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don’t know exactly why I didn’t.
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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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I prefer women with a past. They’re always so demmed amusing to talk to.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
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I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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I sold flowers. I didn’t sell myself. Now you’ve made a lady of me I’m not fit to sell anything else.
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I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.
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I will not retire, cried Kate, with flashing eyes and the red blood mantling in her cheeks. You will do him no hurt that he will not repay. You may use force with me; I think you will, for I am a girl, and that would well become you. But if I have a girl’s weakness, I have a woman’s heart, and it is not you who in a cause like this can turn that from its purpose.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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I would live to study, and not study to live.’
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If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
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If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
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If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.
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If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for ’em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself; that’s where it is.
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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of the church and the state.
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