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...whoever imagines a woman after this model, which consists in saying little things in big words, will see a pretty girl adorned with mirrors and chains...
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A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
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A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
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A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
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A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
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