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"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage."
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"I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony."

"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."

"She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She's always ready to laugh."

"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."

"Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous."

"Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being."

"Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects."

"I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy, those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar."

"This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump."

"On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone."
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"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."


"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."


"No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."


"We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."


"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."


"In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates."


"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."
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