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A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
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Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
Source: Love at Second Sight (1916) Ch. xviii -
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
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The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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