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I'd simply love to come with you for a week in July. That is, if you still want to have me.

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Dr. Buford’s profession was medicine and his obsession was anything that grew in the ground, so he stayed poor.

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No, my heart is turn'd to stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand.

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I’ll sacrifice the lamb that I do love   To spite a raven’s heart within a dove.

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A thing is valued, she says, only if it is rare and hard to get.

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She probably longed to slap my face. They can hit us, there’s Scriptural precedent. But not with any implement. Only with their hands.

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Miss Caroline was no more than twenty-one. She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish. She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. She boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinson’s upstairs front room, and when Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days.

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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or in revery, he had heard their tale before. He saw her urge her vanities, her fine dress and sash and long black stockings, and knew that he had yielded to them a thousand times. Yet a voice within him spoke above the noise of his dancing heart, asking him would he take her gift to which he had only to stretch out his hand. And

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We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion.

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But whose fault was it? Aunt Helena says, holding up one plump finger. Her fault, her fault, her fault, we chant in unison. Who led them on? Aunt Helena beams, pleased with us. She did. She did. She did.

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Джим сказал- вся беда в том, что я девчонка,девчонки вечно воображают невесть что, поэтому их все терпеть не могут.

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It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own.

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O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock!

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What is decreed must be, and be this so.

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This is my friend Durandarte, flower and mirror of the true lovers and valiant knights of his time. He is held enchanted here, as I myself and many others are, by that French enchanter Merlin, who, they say, was the devil's son; but my belief is, not that he was the devil's son, but that he knew, as the saying is, a point more than the devil.

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Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlučuje glasovima većine.

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Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

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Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manur'd with industry, why, the power, and corrigible authority of this, lies in our wills.

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for there is no Christian, that means to be saved by believing rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness.

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