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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

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