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"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
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"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."
"You're not actually falling for him, are you?" he asks her one day, on one of the rare occasions he can get her alone."I'll pretend you didn't just ask that," she tells him in disgust. But Connor has reasons to wonder."On that first night here, he offered you his blanket, and you accepted it," he points out."Only because I knew it would make him cold.""And when he offers you his food, you take it.""Because it means he goes hungry."It's coolly logical. Connor finds it amazing that she can put her emotions aside and be as calculating as Roland, beating him at his own game. Another reason for Connor to admire her."
"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."
"Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said."That's not what I meant."
"I'm not one to let such a striking man pass without looking my fill."
"I haven't seen angels, but I am sure they are not as beautiful as you are."
"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment."
"We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure."
"He was generally aware that he had been blessed in her beauty; even in her usual homespun, knee-deep in mud from her garden, or stained and fierce with the blood of her calling, the curve of her bones spoke to his own marrow, and those whisky eyes could make him drunk with a glance. Besides, the mad collieshangie of her hair made him laugh."
"I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly.Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia.""Although," Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too."
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"The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique."
"That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend."
"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."
"Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift."
"The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it."
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