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What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

From the very beginning—from the first moment, I may almost say—of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry." "You have said quite enough, madam. I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been.

-I think I'll be a clown when I get grown-said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. "Yes sir, a clown." he said. "There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

He says we are not forsaken. For while I wonder for what we live and struggle and die, for while I wonder what keeps us living and struggling, men are sent to minister to the blind ... Who gives, at this one hour, a friend to make darkness light before me?

Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face? Brutus. No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, 140 But by reflection, by some other things.

Three dispositions adverse to Heaven's still, - Incontinence, malice, and mad brutishness.

For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset.

Conditions would some way adjust themselves, she felt; but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

God, how I hate it when somebody yells "Good luck!" at me when I'm leaving somewhere. It's depressing.

My dear," replied her husband, "I have two small favours to request. First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion; and secondly, of my room. I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.

– Как по-твоему, отчего Страшила Рэдли не сбежал из дому?Дилл протяжно вздохнул и повернулся на бок. И сказал через плечо:– Может, ему некуда бежать…

He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable beginning of the inevitable end.

Its very memory gives a shape to fear.   Death could scarce be more bitter than that place!

We had fancied our task would be different, only to find we were to be trained for heroism as though we were circus-ponies. But we soon accustomed ourselves to it. We learned in fact that some of these things were necessary, but the rest merely show. Soldiers have a fine nose for such distinctions.

Well, for instance, when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. ‘The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

We are two legged wombs, that's all: sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices.

Bir şeyi çok iyi yapıyorsanız, bir süre sonra, dikkatli olmazsanız gösteriş yapmaya başlıyorsunuz. Ve sonunda da iyi olmaktan çıkıyor yaptığınız.

You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

He mashed hundreds of cakes of GI soap into the sweet potatoes just to show that people have the taste of Philistines and don’t know the difference between good and bad.