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If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us...

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A daughter's love for a kind father... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.

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Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

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Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you can not build the house without them.

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Warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

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My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

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It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

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Constance Fenimore Woolson

Constance Fenimore Woolson
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Born: March 5, 1840
Died: January 24, 1894 (aged 53)
Bio: Constance Fenimore Woolson was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. She was a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, and is best known for fictions about the Great Lakes region, the American South, and American expatriates in Europe.
Known for:
  1. Miss Grief and Other Stories
  2. Rodman the keeper (1880)
  3. Castle Nowhere (1865)
  4. Jupiter Lights (1889)

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