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I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

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But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.
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But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of, and your hands something that they must do.
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The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.
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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
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