Caresses expressions of one sort or another are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.

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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream, it may be so the moment after death.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

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