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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Another Feeling Great Man Old Opinion Superiority Think Woman
If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Amount Endless Even History Little Make Take Tradition
Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Abbreration Adjective Born Fool Literature Sugar
I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Explore Feel Incapable Kill Live Say Tell Worth
I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Anything Care Know Like Reason
It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Adequate Agreeable Cheerful Country Difficult Easy Exempt Justify Magnificent Reproach Speak
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Allow Better Desire Go Jump Push Wish
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Active Door Habit Imagination Jump Open Ridiculous Window
Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Alternation Darkness Dazzle Lighthouse Like Pitch Revolve
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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All Experience Life Mistakes
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Aesthetic Alien Everything Everywhere Outside Solitary
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Bleed Butchery Corpse Necessary Perform
God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Compromise Creative Creature God Himself Indeed Infinite Man Reveal True Unitary

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