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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
Women are always glad to listen when you discourse upon love.
Things don't get any easier by putting them off.
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man.
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.