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“The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.”
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“Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.”
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“Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or what he stands for us real in our thoughts and deeds, then he is not real or true.”
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“Education is only second to nature.”
Source : Horace Bushnell (2001). “Nature and the Supernatural”, p.53, Applewood Books
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“Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears." Saiman”
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“We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.”
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“The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.”
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“Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.”
Source : Richard Peck (2000). “A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in Stories”, p.11, Penguin