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Work alone qualifies us for life, Sentoni. It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

— Zoe Akins The Portrait of Tiero (1920)

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To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!

Déclassée (1919)

Englishmen are like that. They love life more and value it less than any other people in the world.

Déclassée (1919)

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Daddys Gone A-Hunting (1921)

This world is a very unsafe place. It's all shifting sands, Ned. Shifting sands and changing winds.

Daddys Gone A-Hunting (1921)

Like a fool I thought I was the arbiter of her destiny; and all the time Fate had happier plans for her.

Déclassée (1919)

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