The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing... Mansfield Park
Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable. Gorgias
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. Fragments
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