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"'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come."
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"My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small."

"Most people don't mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive."

"As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech."

"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."

"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."

"My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81."

"Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately."

"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."

"Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote."
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"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."


"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."


"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."


"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"


"It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty."
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