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“One of the most common signs of this period, in some natures, is the love of contradiction and opposition, — a blind desire to go contrary to everything that is commonly received among the older people.”
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“Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.”
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“Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.”
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“She discovered that leaving one's native country for the first time brought pangs of nostalgic, half-forgotten patriotism, a sort of premature homesickness.”
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“No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”
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“Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.”
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“For Miss Ogilvy had found as her life went on that in this world it is better to be one with the herd, that the world has no wish to understand those who cannot conform to its stereotyped pattern.”
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“Bravery and fearlessness have nothing akin to recklessness or heedless disregard of consequences.”