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"Idealist: a cynic in the making."
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"He sniggered.He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now."

"Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which one YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!"

"I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'"

"You're such a cynic," Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute."

"Now I get why I'm incapable of flirting for I can't Lie!"

"Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs."

"You're playing the creepy vibe a little hard, I said. "Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music."

"Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects."

"Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it."
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"Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell."

"We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love."

"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."

"I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats."
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