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To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.
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I never knew Eileen to be honest about anything in all her life unless the truth served her better than an evasion.
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I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.
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Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day...
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Born:
August 17, 1863
Died:
December 6, 1924
(aged 61)
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