Helen Hunt Jackson - Ramona (1884)

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There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families

Helen Hunt Jackson

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second; and so on till death.

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'Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

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The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament.... Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.

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Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self.

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That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

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