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"Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow."
Soul

"On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom."
Wealth

"All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices."
Deception

"When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation."
Art

"This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it."
Fear

"My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak."
Care

"In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes."
Character

"Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?"
Man

"A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan."
Wisdom

"My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town."
Vanity
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"I have more care to staythan will to go."
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"I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears."
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"You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn't, with lotion, polish, and kindness."
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"I would like to sing someone to sleep,to sit beside someone and be there.I would like to rock you and sing softlyand go with you to and from sleep.I would like to be the one in the housewho knew: The night was cold.And I would like to listen in and listen outinto you, into the world, into the woods.The clocks shout to one another striking,and one sees to the bottom of time.And down below one last, strange man walks byand rouses a strange dog.And after that comes silence.I have laid my eyes upon you wide;and they hold you gently and let you gowhen something stirs in the dark."
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"Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing."
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"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself."
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"Just handle the books gently and you'll get along fine."
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"Nothing you build will ever last without a lot of tender-loving-care (TLC)."
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"You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands."
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"I don't really care how we done it, we done it."
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