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"When you see a married couple coming down the street the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad."

"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."

"I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights."

"Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful."

"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."

"Good God. Men everywhere."

"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."

"In fact it was altogether an odd dog, of uncertain breed, or breeds. It was large and black, but its hair was tufty, its body scrawny and clumsy, and its manner edgy, anxious, verging on the completely neurotic. Whenever it came to a halt for a moment or so, the business of starting up again often seemed to cause it trouble, as if it had difficulty in remembering where it had left each of its legs."
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"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."

"We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature."

"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."
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