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"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them."
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hatred
education
propensity
defects
retort
repartee
dislike
misunderstanding
wit
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Jane Austen |
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b85e7ec
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one.
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retort
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Winston S. Churchill |
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"I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute." "Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away."
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retort
quip
jace-wayland
simon-lewis
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Cassandra Clare |
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ae693d3
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The second mouse gets the cheese!
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retort
mouse
proverb
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Terry Pratchett |
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(About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.
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humorous
humor
retort
witty
satire
funny-and-random
wit
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Terry Pratchett |
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632f40f
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"You speak in ignorant disdain of the foremost nation of the world," Yongxing said, growing angry himself, "like all your country-men, who show no respect for that which is superior, and insult our customs." "For which I might consider myself as owing you some apology, sir, if you yourself had not so often insulted myself and my own country, or shown respect for any customs other than your own," Laurence said."
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insult
retort
respect
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Naomi Novik |
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8890cb4
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"I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers." "I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said. "Then, for a beginner," I said, "you do it dashed well."
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humour
humor
jeeves-and-wooster
jeeves
retort
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P.G. Wodehouse |
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2bbc981
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"What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm. "Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him. "I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator."
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courage
retort
cowardice
threat
sarcasm
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Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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b550ceb
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"When, therefore, a man is told, "You (your inner being) are so and so, because your skull-bone is so constituted," this means nothing else than that we regard a bone as the man's reality. To retort upon such a statement with a box on the ear -- in the way mentioned above when dealing with psysiognomy -- removes primarily the "soft" parts of his head from their apparent dignity and position, and proves merely that these are no true inherent nature, are not the reality of mind; the retort here would, properly speaking, have to go the length of breaking the skull of the person who makes a statement like that, in order to demonstrate to him in a manner as palpable as his own wisdom that a bone is nothing of an inherent nature at all for a man, still less his true reality."
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physiognomy
retort
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |