"All life lessons are not learned at college," she thought. "Life teaches them everywhere."
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Anne of the Island
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"It seems to me now, if I was to find Father at home to-night, I should behave different; but there's no knowing--perhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late."
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Adam Bede
by
George Eliot
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.
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The Awakening
by
Kate Chopin
"When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility."
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The Little Minister
by
James M. Barrie
He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.
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The Call of the Wild
by
Jack London
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!"
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A Christmas Carol
by
Charles Dickens