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Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others — in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance — they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
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The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
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It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
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Power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
October 30, 1857
Died:
June 14, 1948
(aged 90)
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