Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before, consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.
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I began... to watch with peculiar alarm lest what I called my philosophic estimate of the human lot in general, should be a mere prose lyric expressing my own pain and consequent bad temper.
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... that modern sect of Flagellants who make a ritual of lashing — not themselves but — all their neighbours.
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Her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
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Excessive literary production is a social offense.
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Published before 06/01/2004
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
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Published before 06/01/2004
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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