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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will . . .
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I am not afeard, my Heart’s-delight, resumed the Captain. There’s been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there’s no denyin’, and they have drove and drove and been beat off, may be t’other side the world. But the ship’s a good ship, and the lad’s a good lad; and it ain’t easy, thank the Lord, the Captain made a little bow, to break up hearts of oak, whether they’re in brigs or buzzums.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.’
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I don’t know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me. I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break; and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter – the Eternity they have entered – where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.
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I don’t like compliments, and I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean.
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I don’t like work–no man does, but I like what is in the work, the chance to find yourself.
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I don’t remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close. . . .
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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I had, in a moment of inadvertence, created for myself a tie. How to define it precisely I don’t know. One gets attached in a way to people one has done something for. But is that friendship? I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul.
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I hain’t ever seen her since that time that I see her go out of that door; no, I hain’t ever seen her since, but I reckon I’ve thought of her a many and a many a million times, and of her saying she would pray for me; and if ever I’d a thought it would do any good for me to pray for HER, blamed if I wouldn’t a done it or bust.
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I have always said that the great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a refuge from home life, sir.
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I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects.
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I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
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I have not personally read this book, because, as a journalist, I am too busy writing about it.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle class morality.
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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.- John Steinbeck
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I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
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