“ Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ When people get it into their heads that they are being specially favoured by the Almighty, they had better as a general rule mind their p's and q's. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
- 173
“ A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began. ”
- Marguerite Duras- Copy
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“ In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable. ”
- R. H. Hutton- Copy
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“ Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
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“ The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal… ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ She had rouged her cheeks to a color otherwise seen only on specially ordered Pontiac Firebirds, and in her ears she wore two feathered appliances resembling surfcasting jigs especially appetizing to striped bass. ”
- George V. Higgins- Copy
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