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Keep your breath to cool your porridge’; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Ms. Bennett, do you know who I am? I am not accustomed to being spoken to in such a manner.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.

Don’t keep coughing so, Kitty, for Heaven’s sake! Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened… It is impossible that he should still love me.

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.

…those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times.

I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy. But don’t despair, it’ll pass; and no doubt more quickly than it should.

I cannot well repeat how there I entered,

And what am I to do on the occasion? — It seems an hopeless business.

And so on. It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

I’m sick in the heart.

Jesus–if Kilgore Trout could only write!” Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout’s unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.

Its reward is in the doing,And the rapture of pursuingIs the prize

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.’Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

Lionel Merble was a machine. Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. It amuses them that so many Earthlings are offended by the idea of being machines.