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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
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Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
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You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.
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Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.
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Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.
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The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.
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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
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