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"Because the pure girls get rescued." Mary Lou felt something she didn't let herself feel often. She was well and truly pissed off. "Why do girls have to be all pure and innocent and good? Why don't guys have to be?"
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"Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is in fact a subtle detraction."
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"Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?"
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"Why look'e, young gentleman," said Toby, "when a man keeps himself so very ex-clusive as I have done, and by that means has a snug house over his head with nobody a-prying and smelling about it, it's rather a starling thing to have the honour of a wisit from a young gentleman (however respectable and pleasant a person he may be to play cards with at conweniency) circumstanced as you are."
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"The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease."
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"It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them."
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"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends."
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"Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."
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"If someone is trying to share a laugh and you personally do not find it funny, then just move on and leave it alone. Do not steal someone else's humor."
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"Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred."
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"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
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"Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else."
Life
"We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans."
Life
"So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not."
Coping
"Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell."
Travel
"I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can."
Life
"There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way."
Wisdom
"Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all."
Motivation
"Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics."
Writing
"Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you."
Belief
"What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It's such a bother that it must be masculine."
Humor
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