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He who demands little gets it.
Cruelty is the only sin.
No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to sieze the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
As the night fell on her face Gerty Bridewell awoke, stifled a yawn with her pillow, and remembered that she had been very unhappy when she went to bed
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated... To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

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