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Mary could never spare time; but the remaining five set off together.

We generally get the juries we deserve.

It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike—in the second place, folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk

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Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.

Но у человека есть одно замечательное свойство: если приходится все начинать сначала, он не отчаивается и не теряет мужества, ибо он знает, что это очень важно, что это стоит усилий.

and I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.

– Мне тридцать лет, – сказал я. – Я пять лет как вышел из того возраста, когда можно лгать себе и называть это честностью.

Gatsby resultó ser un hombre de una pieza. Lo que lo devoró fue el turbio polvo flotando en la estela de sus sueños, lo mismo que encerró temporalmente mi interés en las abortivas tristezas y cortas alegrías del género humano.

No podemos exigir que un hombre alocado sea siempre precavido y prudente. A menudo es nuestra propia vanidad lo que nos engaña . La imaginación de las mujeres hace que concibamos demasiadas ilusiones respecto de los hombres.

But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.

As Dill explained, I found myself wondering what life would be if Jem were different, even from what he was now; what I would do if Atticus did not feel the necessity of my presence, help and advice. Why, he couldn’t get along a day without me. Even Calpurnia couldn’t get along unless I was there. They needed me.

The churchyard was brick-hard clay, as was the cemetery beside it. If someone died during a dry spell, the body was covered with chunks of ice until rain softened the earth. A few graves in the cemetery were marked with crumbling tombstones; newer ones were outlined with brightly colored glass and broken Coca-Cola bottles. Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves. It was a happy cemetery. The

I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you wheeled me into that operating room!

If I ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the wrong?" The king demanded. "The general or myself?" "You," said the little prince firmly. "Exactly. One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform," the king went on. "Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution. I have the right to require obedience because my orders are reasonable.

She was very ordinary, under that beauty. She

Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. It transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight and I see despair coming towards me like famine.

Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself; think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.

Se si potesse portare la mente in una lavanderia a secco, vuotare le tasche, ripulire a vapore, rimetterla in sesto e tornare a prenderla la mattina dopo. Se solo… Montag

After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.