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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for...  
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there ...  
I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.  
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; ...  
Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly...  
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, witho...  
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that ...  
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, ...  
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city a...