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Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?

Jem also told me that if I breathed a word to Atticus, if in any way I let Atticus know I knew, Jem would personally never speak to me again.

Even the few serious crimes that did occur received no particular attention in the news. For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others.

But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgements of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.

I might call him. A thing divine, for nothing natural. I ever saw so noble.

Нам нужны правила, и мы должны им подчиняться. Мы не дикари какие-нибудь. Мы англичане. А англичане всегда и везде лучше всех. Значит, надо вести себя как следует.

I should indefinitely prefer a book.

Atticus had urged them to accept the state's generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with jackass. The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb's leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the son-of-a-bitch-had-it-coming-to-him was a good enough defence for anybody.

…some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it…

Mr. Palmer does not hear me," said she, laughing, "he never does sometimes. It is so ridiculous!

Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick,Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my furyDo I take part.

My whole life seemed to spill out into the river, swirling away from me, everything I had ever been or ever wanted to be.

Simon stayed where he was, a small brown image, concealed by the leaves.Even if he shut his eyes, the sow's head still remained like an after-image.The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. They assured Simon that everything was a bad business.

Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?

La única cosa que no se rige por la regla de la mayoría es la conciencia de uno.

Ten kilometers away, the lights of New York glowed on the skyline like a dawn frozen in the act of breaking.

Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...

I would not wish any companion in the world but you

Солнце на западе горячей золотой каплей стекало все ниже и ниже, нацелясь за порог мира. И вдруг стало ясно, что уже вечер и конец теплу и свету.

orgullo está relacionado con la opinión que tenemos de nosotros mismos; la vanidad, con lo que quisiéramos que los demás pensaran de nosotros.