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Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

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SEBASTIAN               A spirit I am indeed,   But am in that dimension grossly clad   Which from the womb I did participate.   Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,   I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,   And say, ‘Thrice welcome, drownèd Viola.

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You're beautiful, but you're empty. one could not die for you. to be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses; because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I killed caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.

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We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.

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Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space.

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I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers.

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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

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A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! You're

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To return from my digression: tape like this, however, is very difficult to fake convincingly, and we were assured by the experts who examined them that the physical objects themselves are genuine. Certainly the recording itself, that is, the superimposition of voice upon music tape, could not have been done within the past hundred and fifty years. Supposing,

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Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it, let alone the fright of two creeping-off boys. Her past had been like her present—intolerable—and since she knew death was anything but forgetfulness, she used the little energy left her for pondering color.

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El sentido fundamental de la buena educación es inequitativamente repartido al nacer.

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She's so weird. I shrugged. Maybe she was weird, or maybe the rest of us were weird.

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What think you of books?" said he, smiling. "Books—oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I

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He is so excessively handsome!

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The proof that the little prince existed is that he was fascinating, that he laughed, that he wanted a sheep. If someone wants a sheep it proves that they exist,

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What's fair ain't necessarily right.

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You can’t stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.

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But is it the kind of thing she likes to actually do? No. Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned: leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can’t do that until your life has grown roots.

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I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

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Sólo el amor más profundo me hará contraer matrimonio es por eso por lo que terminaré soltera.

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