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It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
Gertrude Atherton
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Gertrude Atherton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 14
Died: 1948
Died: June 14
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Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
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there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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Success is a great healer.
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the only revenge worth having is success.
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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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