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"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
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"We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report."

"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."

"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."

"I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267)."

"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"

"We see the world as we are."

"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
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"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant."

"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."

"There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"

"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."

"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

"Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler."

"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one."
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