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"Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences."
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"Whether it is in a sales situation, love at first sight, a husband and wife having an important conversation, a parent disciplining a child, or a teacher instructing her students, eye contact is a powerful body language for enriching engagement, focus, and communication."
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"The approachable individuals are the first ones that I introduce myself to because they make me feel emotionally safe."
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Personal Development
"As you seek new opportunities to make favorable first impressions, be ever aware of the subtle effect that physical positioning and distance/closeness can have on your interactions with others and use this understanding to your advantage."
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"A strong handshake conveys confidence, clarity, strength, and intention. As with everything else in life, if it is overzealous, it may be seen as aggressive, arrogant, or dominating. A bone-crushing vice-grip is just plain obnoxious and one of the fastest ways to make someone angry."
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Personal Development
"Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences."
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Personal Development
"Can't this thing go any faster? Thalia demanded.Zoe glared at her. "I cannot control traffic.You both sound like my mother, I said.Shut up! they both said in union."
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Personal Development
"He asked what she was in for and complimented the find workmanship of her metal extremities, but she ignored him, making him briefly question if he'd been separated from the female population for so long that he could be losing his charm. But that seemed unlikely."
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Personal Development
"Our attitude to people determines their attitude to us."
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Personal Development
"As I pulled aside the linen curtain to the back room, I heard the front door open again. If it was Christina returning to make a second effort at my leggings, I was going to be forced to get loud, and I didn't like getting loud.But it wasn't Christina I heard at the front of the store.Instead, a very familiar voice said, "No, no, I'm looking for something very particular. Oh, wait, I just saw it."I turned around.Cole St. Clair smiled lazily at me.I gave so many damns at once that it actually hurt."
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"Do you ever answer anything in a way that people expect you to?"
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"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."
Learning
"I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours."
Satire
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
Being
"Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?"
Nature
"When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene."
Nature
"That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself."
Happiness
"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering."
Love
"I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy."
Emotion
"A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross."
Society
"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."
Emotion
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