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have nothing in your house that you don't know to be useful nor think to be beautiful.
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Man's inhumanity to man, unleashed, was an obscenity, and that obscenity was each person's own private responsibility.
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She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers.
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Just remember that the most important thing is to be truthful to yourself. If you hang on to that, you won't go far wrong.
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He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.
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happiness is making the most of what you have and riches is making the most of what you've got.
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She stared at him, accepting for the first time the fact that personal tragedy is just that. Personal. Your own existence could fall to pieces but that did not mean that the rest of the world necessarily knew about it, or even bothered.
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Elfrida, are you about to cry? - I might be. - Why? - Relief.
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On the contrary, she was aware only of a sort of timelessness, as though it was all part of a plan, a predestined design, conceived the day she was born. What was happening to her had been meant to happen, what was going to go on happening. Without any recognizable beginning, it did not seem possible that it could ever have an end.
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He thought back over the extraordinarily coincidental chain of events that had brought him here, at this particular time, and then left him marooned, so that he had no choice but to stay. With hindsight, it seemed as though it had all been carefully mapped out by fate.
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One just had to be content with what had happened so far.
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Mrs. Plackett did not believe in letting emotion show. Keep yourself to yourself had always been her motto.
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Describing an unsatisfactory apartment for which an up-and-comer had to settle:] The flat crouched around him, watching like a depressed relation, waiting for him to take some action.
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As for God, I frankly admit that I find it easier to live with the ageold questions about suffering than with many of the easy or pious explanations offered from time to time. Some of which seem to verge on blasphemy.
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at seventy-seven, what did a few wrinkles matter? A small price to pay for an energetic and active old age. She drove in the last stake,
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As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.
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sloped down to distant cliffs; farmland, ribboned with yellow gorse, broken by outcrops of granite, and patchworked into dozens of small fields. Like a quilt, thought Virginia, and saw the pasture fields as scraps of green velvet, the greenish gold of new-cut hay as shining satin, the
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Her family... Love and involvement brought joy, but as well could become a hideously heavy millstone slung about one's neck. And the worst was that she felt useless because there was not a mortal thing she could do to help resolve their problems.
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The Scottish clan system was an extraordinary thing. No man was any man's servant, but part of a family. Which is why your average Highlander does not walk through life with a chip on his shoulder. He is proud. He knows he is as good as you are, and probably a good deal better.
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Oh well. Better out than in,
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I know we didn't have very long together, but what we did have was special. Not many people achieve such happiness, even for a year or two.
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but also for the sweater most expertly knitted from hand-spun wool,
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Carrie could not remember how long it was since some other person had cherished her. Had said, 'You look tired.' And, 'How about a little rest?' She had spent too many years being strong, looking after others and their problems...The day progressed, and through her window Carrie watched the weather and was glad she did not have to be out in it. Snow showers came and went; the sky was grey. From time to time she heard the faint keening of wi..
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Nothing's worth anything unless somebody wants it.
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The air smelled of box and mint and thyme and newly turned earth. Laura
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Oh." Elfrida made much effort not to appear too astonished. She had never seen any person in her life less likely to be a minister's wife."
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