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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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"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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"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
"Our attitude to people determines their attitude to us."
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Personal Development
"Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself?Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter.Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind act is never lost, eh?Baron: Have you been chewing verite or semuta, Piter?"
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Personal Development
"Meeting someone for the first time has significance, but for some people, the awkwardness can be so great that they avoid a conversation altogether. The person who may be shy, introverted, or afraid of sounding stupid may just choose to remain silent rather than take the risk of engaging in embarrassing dialogue."
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Personal Development
"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
"He asked her for coffee, but she wanted tea instead."
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Personal Development
"It is better to hug than wave hands."
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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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Personal Development
"You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know.""Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want.""Anything?""Anything that doesn't require doing anything.""That's nothing, then.""Is it?""Yes.""Well, that's something."
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"When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!"
Spiritual
"If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it may be the means-it may put me on my guard-at least, it may be something to live for."
Hope
"There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley."
Ethics
"That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit."
Society
"They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town."
Philosophy
"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
Literature
"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
Man
"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
Virtue
"My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be..."
Romance
"There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions."
Mind
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