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"She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse."
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"People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps."
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"If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?"
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"Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents."
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"I'm impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man."
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"I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band."
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"To be respected, respect others."
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"When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title."
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"O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!"
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"Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father."
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"Some people respect some people only because some people respect them."
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"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."
Death

"While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern."
Time

"Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse."
Truth

"At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!"
Purpose

"There were crimson roses on the bench, they looked like splashes of blood."
Nature

"To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh, to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door."
Learning

"On marriage and permanent attach."
Marriage

"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."
Society

"He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain."
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"The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself."
Creativity
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