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A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject matter, when one comes to write about it.

— Mary Augusta Ward A Writer's Recollections (1918)

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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system!

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There is nothing more startling in human relations than the strong emotions of weak people.

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Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

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All things change,—creeds and philosophies and outward systems,—but God remains!

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But the mind travels far—and mysteriously—in sleep.

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