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Mrs. de Winter: Mrs. Danvers must be furious with me.
Maxim de Winter: Oh, hang Mrs. Danvers! Why on earth should you be frig ...
Robert E. Sherwood
fright | maids | mistresses
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There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to fight wit ...
Florence King
United States, people of | national character | quarrels
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In France, and at the most important period of our history, Catherine de' Medici has suffered more from popular error than any oth ...
Honoré De Balzac
people and places | history | royalty
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A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
José Bergamín
advice
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You played a party with a prince and Miss de Zuylen. You was shocked, or rather offended, with her unlimited vivacity.
James Boswell
manners | men and women
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There is a social respect necessary in company: you may start your own subject of conversation with modesty, taking care, however, ...
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl
conversation | etiquette
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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the con ...
Noam Chomsky
protest
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Et Saint Apollinaire, raide et ascétique,
Vieille usine désaffectée de Dieu, tient encore ...
T.S. Eliot
churches
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Je célébrai mon jour de fête
Dans une oasis d'Afrique
Vêtu d'une peau de girafe.
T.S. Eliot
celebrations | Africa and Africans | Animals
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C'est à Paris que je me coiffe
Casque noir de jemenfoutiste.
T.S. Eliot
Paris
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