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Whatever She may have been thought to signify, its impact upon publication was tremendous. Everyone read it, especially men; a whole generation was influenced by it, and the generation after that. A dozen or so films have been based on it, and a huge amount of the pulp-magazine fiction churned out in the teens, twenties, and thirties of the twentieth century bears its impress. Every time a young but possibly old and/or dead woman turns up, ..
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Prejudice is a strong thing, and when it is heightened by suspicion and jealousy, especially jealousy of the unacknowledged kind, it becomes formidable, both to him who entertains it and to him against whom it is entertained.
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Bogi meniaiut svoi tsarstva i imena, liudi zhivut, umiraiut i ozhivaiut, chtoby snova umeret'; tsarstva mogut past', i praviteli prevratiatsia v zabytyi prakh.
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Bol'she togo, nam dana radost' videt' sebia i drugikh takimi, kak my est', znat' vse, chto znaiut bogi, i potomu proshchat' - dazhe tekh, kogo my prezirali i nenavideli v zhizni.
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Take the goods the gods provide you.
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It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it.
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minds carefully drilled and educated out of any originality or self-resource that nature may have endowed them with.
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religion which is nothing more of less than sun-worship of a pronounced and highly developed character.
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intense feeling is the mother of eloquence.
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there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross, save a mountain and a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hands counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or lose it as Heaven above may order.
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Women's eyes are always bright, whatever the colour,
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but of those Jews whom I hated, for they called me 'heathen' when I would have taught them my philosophy -- did their Messiah come, and doth He rule the world?" "Their Messiah came," I answered with reverence; "but He came poor and lowly, and they would have none of Him. They scourged Him, and crucified Him upon a tree, but yet His words and His works live on, for He was the Son of God, and now of a truth He doth rule half the world, but no..
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Athiests, those spiritual destroyers, who in the name of progress and humanity would divorce hope from life and leave us wandering in a lonesome, self consecrated hell.
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I do not believe in violence; it is the last resort of fools.
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We white people think that we know everything.
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It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.
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I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.
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It is easier to destroy knowledge, Ignosi, than to gather it.
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Those who go secretly, go evilly; and foul birds love to fly at night.
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The shaft of my vengeance fell upon my own head.
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