An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
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I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.
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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
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Howells, William Dean

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