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"Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy."
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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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"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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"Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy."
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"Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion."
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"Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty."
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"I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing."
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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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"If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong."
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"I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10."
Man

"They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest."
Sex

"He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake."
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"The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it."
Kiss

"I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along."
Men

"Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy."
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"I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let him do it at all if that had been the case."
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"It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler."
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"I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that."
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