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One Of The Advantages Or Disadvantages Of The Way In Which We Live In These Modern Days Is That We Are Ceasing To Feel. That Is To Say We Do Not Permit Ourselves To Be Affected By Either Death Or Misfortune, Provided These Natural Calamities Leave Our Own Persons Unscathed.

There Is Nothing So Inconvenient In This World As An Absolutely Truthful Person, Who Can Both Speak And Write, And Has The Courage Of His Convictions. One Can Always Arrange Matters With Liars ... But With The Man Or Woman Who Holds Truth Dearer Than Life, And Honor More Valuable Than Advancement, There Is Nothing To Be Done, Now That Governments Cannot Insist On The Hemlock-cure, As In The Case Of Socrates.

Love Clamors Far More Incessantly And Passionately At A Closed Gate Than An Open One!

There Is Nothing So Depressing As A Constant Contemplation Of One's Self, And The Greatest Moral Cowardice In The World's Opinion Comes From Consulting One's Own Personal Convenience.

Fancy Your Having No Sunshine In London Yesterday! Here It Was Glorious, Like Full Summer, And I Sat Up With The Window Wide Open, Listening To The Discourse Of Two Amorous Thrushes.