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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man youth never.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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Anna Brownell Jameson
Age: 66 †
Born: 1794
Born: January 1
Died: 1860
Died: January 1
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When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.
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... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.
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A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
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How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!
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There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.
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