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“The rest of the evening passed agreeably: the crew had their games on the main deck, resigning themselves to Sirs and dice now that dancing was out, those who would go ashore to enjoy the dining ha...”
“No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.”
“Teaching a man how to clean barnacles from a keel is an amazing useful talent, one any child should be fortunate to learn. Magochiro is our champion barnaclebully at present. String him under a kee...”
“You Mr Bellstrode began, and then leaning forward and sinking his voice, You would kill for money?Is there any other reason to? Well, I suppose there is revenge, but that, you know, never makes one...”
“I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.”
“I leave the outdoors to you. It is too warm out there to read comfortable, and summer, like many uncomfortable things, is as welcome as a dim woman. It is tolerable to look at, but after being made...”
“You will try to improve me, Captain, but I tell you it cannot be done. I am resigned to moral apathy and corporeal decrepitude, and have done with projections. No, Captain, with a pining sigh, I th...”
“The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.”
“Tea was the great arbiter of many things, and for Pastaddams, his morning cup meant the difference between expressing rational thought and succumbing to the ineptitude that occupied recesses of his...”
“We come by aurora,with a heavy and sovereign tread,with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders,with the apricity of light to crown our heads”
“And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.”
“Women always think in the catastrophic, and when there is a calamity to rectify that might require a unmarried granddaughter, there older women will always act. Their powers of foresight and vigila...”
“The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.”
“There are two gradations of cold that are always acceptable: Mild Frost, which is preferable for reading and writing and any other activity done indoors, and Absolute Zero, which is the only temper...”
“The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.”
“The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.”
“My doctor has given me as strong an antihistamine as she is allowed to prescribe, but even that does nothing for the itching and swelling. The moment a grain of pollen enters the keep, I begin to t...”
“Regrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others.”
“Hes going to kill me, Peppone murmured, his jaw drooping, or at least send out the order to have someone take care of me. Well, with a sigh, might as well get rid of this body before the others wak...”
“The absence of life is not the same as material privation: we will never again see the same soul occupying the same space. The world refers to them as pets, but that is what we do, not really what ...”
