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A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.
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I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.
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Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.
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The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style.
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That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.
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Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
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My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room, where everybody has to play hockey properly.
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She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.
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Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?
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Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
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Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
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There are some things (like first love and one's first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.
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The farm was crouched on a bleak hillside, whence its fields, fanged with flints, dropped steeply to the village of Howling a mile away.
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He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.
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Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.
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Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...
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On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.
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Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
January 5, 1902
Died:
December 19, 1989
(aged 87)
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