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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” “I

His pride,” said Miss Lucas, “does not offend ME so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it.

keep your breath to cool your porridge

… nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, we do not know where, a sheep that we never saw has – yes or no? – eaten a rose… And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!

She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she’d made. I didn’t want to live my life on her terms.

She’s a flag on a hilltop, showing us what can still be done: we too can be saved. The

I’m not trying to tell you that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It’s not so. But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with- which, unfortunately, is rarely the case- tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end. And- most important- nine times out of ten they have more humility than the unscholarly thinker.

على كل إنسان أن يترك شيئا خلفه عندما يموت ، عليه أن يترك خلفه طفلا أو كتابا أو لوحة أو منزلا أو جدارا مبنيا أو زوج أحذية من صنعه أو حديقة مزروعة شيئا ما ، لامسته يدك بطريقة معينة . بحيث يكون لروحك مكان تذهب إليه عندما تموت . و عندما ينظر الناس إلى الشجرة أو الزهرة التي زرعتها تكون أنت موجودا هناك .لا يهم ما تفعل ما دمت تغير شيئا ما عما كان قبل أن تلمسه و تحوله إلى شيء يشبهك بعد أن ترفع يديك عنه .

Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

frankness of her character in her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent him language so very abusive, especially of Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse

care for at a ball. They returned, therefore, in good spirits to Longbourn, the village where they lived, and of which

you must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman.

They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time.

To such devices have we descended.

Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone ? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody—told it to me because Jay Gatsby had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out.

condescended

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.” “I

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense

The slave is always a tyrant, if he can get a chance to be one.