Anna Katharine Green Quotes
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The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.
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A woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.
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Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
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Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.
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It was the smile which runs before a promise.
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The very shadows seem to listen.
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There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
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He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.
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It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
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There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.
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Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
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The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.
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Faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.