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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

George Eliot

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Better Breakfast Day Live Moment Other Time
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Decide Stick Think What
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Defeat Many Victory Worse
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Children Know led Way
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Chock Love Men Other Thought
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Best Capacity Deception Degrad Destry Effectively Malign Most Own Self
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
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Also Like Love Mind Same Sure Told
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Been Come Duty Find Have Make Must Out
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Agree All Call Impulse Name Inspiration Nobel Rapid Through

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