“ I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath. ”
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“ Let your faith be as your stockings, and your stockings as your faith. Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment's notice!. ”
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“ I have always held the oldfashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. ”
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“ The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught. ”
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“ I said, "No man is worth fretting for in that way." And she said, "There are men worth dying for, Lucy, and he is one of them. ”
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“ The books the generous friends who met me without suspicion the merciful masters who never used me ill! ”
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“ The books the generous friends who met me without suspicion the merciful masters who never used me ill! ”
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“ The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught. ”
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“ The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught. ”
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“ I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is — the enormous prosperity of Fools. ”
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“ I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong. ”
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“ The best men are not consistent in good — why should the worst men be consistent in evil? ”
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“ I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong. ”
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“ I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong. ”
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“ The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. ”
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“ I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is — the enormous prosperity of Fools. ”
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“ Are there, infinitely varying with each individual, inbred forces of Good and Evil in all of us, deep down below the reach of mortal encouragement and mortal repression — hidden Good and hidden Evil, both alike at the mercy of the liberating opportunity and the sufficient temptation? ”
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“ The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time. ”
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“ The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time. ”
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“ The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. ”
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“ I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. ”
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“ In all the thousands of times I have asked other people for advice, I never yet got the advice I wanted. ”
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“ I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. ”
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“ I must go to the window and get some air. Shall I jump out? No; it disfigures one so, and the coroner's inquest lets so many people see it. ”
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“ My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. ”
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“ I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong. ”
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“ I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. ”
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“ I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong. ”
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