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"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
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"Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy."
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"Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty."
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"Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them to hang myself.""My mother did the embroidery," Bittterblue said.Katsa clapped her mouth shut and glared at Helda. "Thank you, Helda, for mentioning that detail."
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"Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion."
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"I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing."
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"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
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"She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about? Mandy questioned."Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought? Alecto asked quietly."
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"Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth."
Love
"Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must."
Literature
"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."
People
"Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched."
Wisdom
"It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering."
Morality
"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."
Books
"Pride,' observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, 'is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary."
Psychology
"However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were. "And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! "I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
Romance
"You deserve a longer letter than this, but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve."
Regret
"Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint."
Behavior
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