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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.