I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGo oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
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great is the art
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Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in a world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority
Ralph Waldo EmersonBuild therefore your own world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is not often the worst trait that occasions the loudest outcry. Men complain of their suffering and not of the crime.
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