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Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent.

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My little old dog, a heartbeat at my feet.

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No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

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Grace Stepney's mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory.

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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

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That terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything, looked back at him like a stranger through May Welland's familiar features and once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

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Nothing could more clearly give the measure of the distance that the world had travelled.

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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries

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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

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If she was faintly aware of fresh difficulties ahead, she was sure of her ability to meet them it was characteristic of her to feel that the only problems she could not solve were those with which she was familiar.

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If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

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In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.

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Beware of monotony it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

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There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

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It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.

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It seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

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Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

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She had never been able to understand the laws of a universe which was so ready to leave her out of its calculations.

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. . . she was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company . . .

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I feel that each case must be judged individually, on its own merits ... irrespective of stupid conventionalities... I mean, each woman's right to her liberty.

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. . . an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

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My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our ''gross public'' to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth

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