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"...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!"
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"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."

"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."

"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."

"Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."

"He was generally aware that he had been blessed in her beauty; even in her usual homespun, knee-deep in mud from her garden, or stained and fierce with the blood of her calling, the curve of her bones spoke to his own marrow, and those whisky eyes could make him drunk with a glance. Besides, the mad collieshangie of her hair made him laugh."

"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment."

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

"You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing."

"I see you from afar-fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift."
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"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."


"I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high."


"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."


"You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength."


"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."


"I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."


"You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?"
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