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"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."
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"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."
"A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired."
"If you have a good sense of dressing, there wouldn't be any need to spend a fortune to look good."
"The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance."
"A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing."
"Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?"
"Your face, my thane, is as a book where menMay read strange matters. To beguile the time,Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under't."
"If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained."
"Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?"
"Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately."
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"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."
"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."
"I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!"
"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
"Ah, dear Jude; that's because you are like a totally deaf manobserving people listening to music. You say 'What are theyregarding? Nothing is there.' But something is."
"I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel; under which they allow her to go unlamented to her grave."
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