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If one gives answer before hearing, it is folly and shame.
I had been curiously depressed all day. In the night I wakened. First precise thought: I know why I'm depressed--nothing inspired ...
...I didn't consider intellectuals intelligent, I never liked them or their thoughts about life. I defined them as people who care ...
It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for ...
We are all talkers
It is true, but underneath the talk lies
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My idea of good company ... is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I c ...
Only one comes back with me tomorrow, probably Miss Eliza, & I
rather dread it. We shall not have two Ideas in common. She is
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Mrs. Powlett was at once expensively nakedly dress'd; we have
had the satisfaction of estimating her Lace & her Muslin; & she
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On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.
Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want to drop i ...
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