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"I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are--ah--slumming."
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"Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them - than when you are alone."
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"They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep."
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Personal Development
"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others."
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Personal Development
"Presenting "Mix, Mingle & Glow in a social context is a lovely way to describe how you can make a great first impression by taking the initiative to help other people shine. Think of the times when you have attended an event where there were a lot of people."
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Personal Development
"Discovery is meant to fill in the need of the society."
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Personal Development
"That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged."
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Personal Development
"The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview."
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Personal Development
"Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family."
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"The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!"
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"Choosing your flirtations consciously shows emotional maturity."
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"Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on.H'rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren't doing the backstroke."
Humor
"Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced."
Society
"The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that it's government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in. The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to, but it won't be that way much longer."
Politics
"Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?"
Ethics
"How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senseless killing--Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death; he had been tried openly and convicted by twelve good men and true; my father had fought for him all the way. Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed."
Ethics
"As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal."
Morality
"We're so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us."
Faith
"The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint."
Experience
"I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world."
Life
"Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen."
Society
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