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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

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Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

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My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

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Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

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You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

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Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: June 2nd, 1840

Died: January 11th, 1928

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