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I have frequently told you, and the holidays just past have convinced me, that my prime has truly begun. One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
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If anyone comes along," said Miss Brodie, "in the course of the following lesson, remember that it is the hour for English grammar. Meantime I will tell you a little of my life when I was younger than I am now, though six years older than the man himself."
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Her name and memory, after her death, flitted from mouth to mouth like swallows in summer, and in the winter they were gone.
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Oye, Jane, deberias cobrarles la cantidad de tiempo libre que le dedicas a ese trabajo. --El mundo de los libros es ante todo altruista --decia Jane. Siempre se referia al negocio de la edicion como "el mundo de los libros". Solia andar mal de dinero, asi que por querer ahorrar unos chelines para el contador de gas de la calefaccion, no podia, segun ella, ponerse a dieta en invierno, justo cuando habia que mantener la habitacion caliente ad..
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I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book.
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I can tell you that if there's nothing wrong with you except fat it is easy to get thin. You eat and drink the same as always, only half. If you are handed a plate of food, leave half; if you have to help yourself, take half. After a while, if you are a perfectionist, you can consume half of that again ... On the question of will-power, if that is a factor, you should think of will-power as something that never exists in the present tense, ..
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I have long wanted to know the Greek language, and this scheme will also serve to impress your knowledge on your own minds. John Stuart Mill used to rise at dawn to learn Greek at the age of five, and what John Stuart Mill could do as an infant at dawn, I too can do on a Saturday afternoon in my prime.
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Pictures inside frames,' said Dave. 'That's really all there is to it/ said Tom...;
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Sandy was fascinated by the economy of Teddy Lloyd's method, as she had been four years earlier by Miss Brodie''s variations on her love story, when she had attached to her first, war-time lover the attributes of the art master and the singing master who had then newly entered her orbit. Teddy Lloyd's method of presentation was similar, it was economical, and it always seemed afterwards to Sandy that where there was a choice of various cour..
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The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
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Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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