- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you always do as you would like to do were it in your power? I find that circumstances force me often to act in a manner quite opposite to what I should prefer; I am, of course, judged by my acts, but do they really afford a true key to my character? I think not.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further.
- Motions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery, or elsewhere, as the heir.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.
- Attending
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- Nov 07, 2020
When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness.
- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.
- Lover
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- Nov 07, 2020