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THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST
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Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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The blood is the life!
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Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by - come back to us with bitterness.
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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.