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"The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself."
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"A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation."
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"The tedious never die, that's what makes them tedious."
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"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."
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"The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting."
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"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all."
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"How do you feel?He rubbed his stomach. "Like I've been eating Styrofoam."
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"In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain."
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"I'm almost afraid to tell you. Let's put it this way: clean toilets are the least of your problems in this country."
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"His shoulder-length hair was a rich, dark-brown color with a slight wave to it and it flowed behind him as he ran into the center of the gypsies. He was tall, muscular, and so beautifully handsome, yet primal. He looked magnificent."
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"Human skin hisses like a rattlesnake when it burns."
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"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."
Life
"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
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"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Life
"She had been expecting me and was ready. She gave a long slow soundless headshake, merciful only in being inarticulate. This mercy didn't prevent its hurling at me the largest finest coldest 'Never!' I had yet, in the course of a life that had known denials, had to take full in the face. I took it and was aware that with the hard blow the tears had come into my eyes. So for a while we sat and looked at each other; after which I slowly rose. I was wondering if some day she would accept me; but this was not what I brought out. I said as I smoothed my hat: 'I know what to think then. It's nothing!"
Social
"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."
Life
"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
Money
"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."
Complexity
"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."
Happiness
"Her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it."
Irony
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