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To yield readily—easily—to the persuasion of a friend is no merit with you." "To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

I dont no what sience is but they all keep saying it so maybe its someting that helps you have good luk.

It isn’t running away they’re afraid of. We wouldn’t get far. It’s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? It was in the air; and it was still in the air, an afterthought, as we tried to sleep,

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge

Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...

Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with

domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other

Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat so he has to lern something new to get his food. That made me sad because if he coulnt lern he wouldnt be able to eat and he would be hungry.

Men at some time are masters of their fates;      The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,114 [140]      But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom

Each has a placard hung around his neck to show why he has been executed: a drawing of a human fetus. They

— Аз съм седемнайсетгодишна и побъркана — рече тя. — Чичо ми казва, че двете неща винаги вървели заедно. Когато хората те попитат на колко си години, казва ми той, винаги отговаряй, че си седемнайсетгодишна и побъркана. Не е ли приятно да се разхождаш по това време на нощта? Обичам да вдъхвам мириса на нещата, да ги разглеждам. И понякога стоя будна цяла нощ, разхождам се и чакам да видя как ще изгрее слънцето.

for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose, -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

one thing's sure and nothings' surerthe rich get richer and the poor get -childrenIn the meantimeIn between time

And all at once I knew how Margo Roth Spiegelman felt when she wasn't being Margo Roth Spiegelman: she felt empty.

Come, Darcy," said he, "I must have you dance. I hate to see you standing about by yourself in this stupid manner.

— Колкото и злощастно да е станалото с Лидия, ние щеизвлечем от него следната поука: че загубената добродетел е нещоневъзвратимо; че една-единствена погрешна стъпка влече подире сибезконечен провал; че доброто име е колкото прекрасно, толкова икрехко и че жената трябва да бди над себе си неспирно и да се браниот недостойните представители на обратния пол.

Atticus was speaking so quietly his last word crashed on our ears. I looked up, and his face was vehement. There’s nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who’ll take advantage of a Negro’s ignorance. Don’t fool yourselves—it’s all adding up and one of these days we’re going to pay the bill for it. I hope it’s not in you children’s time. Jem

I was on a down escalator now. If I stood still I’d go all the way to the bottom, but if I started to run up maybe I could at least stay in the same place. The important thing was to keep moving upward no matter what happened.