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Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate. - [Hate] In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. - [Freedom] In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made. - [Middle Age] Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. - [Books] Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. - [Life] None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. - [Change] Richard Carter had called the place "Crownlands," not to please himself, or even his wife. But it was to his mother's newly born family pride that the idea of being the Carters of Crownlands made its appeal. - Harriet and the Piper (ch. I) [Books (First Lines)] The day had opened so brightly, in such a welcome wave of April sunshine, that by mid-afternoon there were two hundred players scattered over the links of the Long Island Country Club at Belvedere Bay; the men in thick plaid stockings and loose striped sweaters, the women's scarlet coats and white skirts making splashes of vivid color against the fresh green of grass and the thick powdering of dandelions. - The Heart of Rachael (book I, ch. I) [Books (First Lines)]
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