Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
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When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
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Man has his will, - but woman has her way.
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Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
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