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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

George Eliot

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
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
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.
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Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Bed Oppressive Yesterday
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Act Bear Been Content Day Grief Our Silence Suffer Were
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary Way
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Giving Luxury Must One Poor
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Like Love Not Only Told
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Air Conviction Deliver Founded Knowledge Mere Opinion Stupidity Well
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Battle Coward Fight Give Man Plunk Sure Sure Lose Win
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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City Country Funeral Hemisphere History Image Move Past Procession Seem Strange Visible

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

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