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"I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men."

"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

"Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart."

"The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory."

"When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks."

"Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing."

"What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"

"But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves."

"You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl."

"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."

"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."

"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."

"Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures."

"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."

"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness."

"Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"

"We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been."

"One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures."

"The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions."

"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."

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