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For a nickel a month, Lady Jones did what whitepeople thought unnecessary if not illegal: crowded her little parlor with the colored children who had time for and interest in book learning.

No has de cambiar, por consideración a una persona, el significado de los principios y de la integridad, ni tratar de convencerte, o convencerme a mí, de que el egoísmo es prudencia y la insensibilidad ante el peligro certidumbre de felicidad.

A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions.

And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

Pen Is Envy, Aunt Lydia would say, quoting another Center motto, warning us away from such objects.

—Bueno, querida —dijo el señor Bennet, cuando Elizabeth leyó la misiva en voz alta—, si tu hija enferma gravemente, si acaba muriendo, será un consuelo saber que todo fue para pescar al señor Bingley, y siguiendo tus órdenes

I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.

He never answered questions--but when one flushes does that not mean "Yes"?

Hell we can make for ourselves.

My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

It was fascinating to watch that agile mind trying one opening after another, testing and rejecting all the theories that Stormgren himself had abandoned long ago.

How little we know of what there is to know.

A good joke, that!" returned Don Quixote. "Books that have been printed with the king's licence, and with the approbation of those to whom they have been submitted, and read with universal delight, and extolled by great and small, rich and poor, learned and ignorant, gentle and simple, in a word by people of every sort, of whatever rank or condition they may be—that these should be lies!

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce; but with respect to any other leading characteristic, I do not imagine that much has been unfolded.

My dear Rikki, Karellen retorted, it’s only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!

Let me soap you," he murmured."Thank you for your good intentions," she said, "but my two hands are quite enough.""Even if it's just your back," the foreigner begged."That would be silly," she said. "People never soap their backs.

They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others. T

No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time.

Robert Jordan knew that now his papers were being examined by the man who could not read.