To follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one's pencil, and the voice was her own voice saying without prompting undeniable, everlasting, contradictory things. To the Lighthouse
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. The Art Of War
The gentleman lolling back in the chaise was neither dashingly handsome nor yet unbearably ugly, neither too stout nor yet too thin; it could not be claimed he was old but he was no stripling, either. His arrival in the town created no stir and was not marked by anything out of the ordinary. Dead Souls
If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride The Therapeutic Process: Essays and Lectures
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