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"Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being."
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"People with the gift of charm exude a delightful demeanor-an attractive likability that enwraps you in their warmth."
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"I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next."
"She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and evocative. This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of urbane humor with a precision that approached meagreness. But at the moment when strangers tended to grow uncomfortable in the presence of this economy she would seize the topic and rush off with it, feverishly surprised with herself-- then bring it back and relinquish it abruptly, almost timidly, like an obedient retriever, having been adequate and something more."
"You're such a cynic," Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute."
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"I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony."
"I can eat you at breakfast, not because I am a monster; it is only because you are too cute and yummy."
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"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."
"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."
"The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse."
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"Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."
"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would."
"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."
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