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She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.	Gilbert Parker	Pierre And His People
. . . they had courage; without which, men are as the standing straw in an unreaped field in winter; but having become like the hooded pine, that keepeth green in frost, and hath the bounding blood in all its icy branches.	Gilbert Parker	Pierre And His People
"Every shot that kills ricochets."	Gilbert Parker	Romany of the Snows
Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.	Gilbert Parker	Romany of the Snows
. . . being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care.	Gilbert Parker	Northern Lights
"There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. Babbling covers a lot of secrets."	Gilbert Parker	Northern Lights
"The real business of life is trying to understand each other."	Gilbert Parker	Northern Lights
"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."	Gilbert Parker	Mrs. Falchion
"There was no tragedy in his death--death is a magnificent ally; it untangles knots."	Gilbert Parker	Mrs. Falchion
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.	Gilbert Parker	Mrs. Falchion

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