As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

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I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

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The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

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