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I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
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women
beauty
failing
failings
nude
naked
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beautiful. Otherwise it seems mere peevishness.
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peevishness
takes-after
refusal
scorn
failings
compromise
tendency
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Margaret Atwood |
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we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.
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humanity
love
failings
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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b0361a9
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It was not edifying to dwell on the failings of others.
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edification
edifying
failings
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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Undisclosed failings, she thought; that great weight we all carry around with us, some of us for all our lives, unable to speak about them, unable -- involuntary Atlases all -- to share the burden.
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isabel-dalhousie
failings
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Alexander McCall Smith |