Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

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'Come hither, Son,' I heard Death say; 'I did not will a grave Should end thy pilgrimage today, But I, too, am a slave!'

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'I can make you happy,' said he to the back of her head, across the bush. 'You shall have a piano in a year or two—farmers' wives are gettin...

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Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.

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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

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