I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trod the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.
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Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary; therefore, keep to yourself, and don’t venture on generalities of which you are intensely ignorant.
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A present has many faces to it, does it not?
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Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot.
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You have no ghost, then?
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A new servitude! There is something in that.
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“I’ll stay with you, dear Helen: no one shall take me away.”
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“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
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I was no Helen Burns.
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It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
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