"You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something."

Values, Time, Integrity, Tradition

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"You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something."

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"Pretty?' I said, swivelling in the driver's seat to face him, 'you want to ask me out because I'm pretty?' 'Is there a problem with asking you out because you're pretty?' 'I think you blew it,' said Tiger with a grin. 'You should be asking her out because she's smart, witty, mature beyond her years and every moment in her company makes you want to be a better person - pretty of face should be at the bottom of the list.' 'Oh, blast,' said Perkins despondently. 'It should, shouldn't it?"

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"True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is..."

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"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."

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"A surfeit of information often hides an untruth, he said, with annoying clarity."

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"I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics."

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"I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action."

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"I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats."

Reality

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Meaning

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