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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.

George Eliot

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Always Brook Charm Clear Flower Good Know Like Paas Refresh Wood
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Like Love Not Only Told
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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All Hard Know Language Learn Much Suffer Understand
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Build Down Ignorancem Hour Knowledge Pull Slowly
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Giving Luxury Must One Poor
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Mind Narrow Point Subject Various View
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Decide Stick Think What
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Difficulty Each Other Less Live Make
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Come Earth Great never Repent Severity Tenderness

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