"Americans are so charming, that we really must not mind their money."
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The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay
"I do hate singing before that sort of audience. It is like giving them your soul to look at, and you don't want them to see it. It seems indecent. To my mind, music is the most REVEALING thing in the world."
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The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay
Parents are apt to see no injustice in the fact that they are often annoyed with their offspring for possessing attributes, both of character and appearance, with which they themselves have endowed them.
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The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay
She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.
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The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay
"Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,
For things that are not to be remedied."
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Henry VI, Part One by William Shakespeare
"Fight till the last gasp."
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Henry VI, Part One by William Shakespeare
"Of all base passions fear is most accurs'd."
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Henry VI, Part One by William Shakespeare
"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."
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Henry VI, Part One by William Shakespeare
"Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone."
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Henry VI, Part One by William Shakespeare
"People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases."
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The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope
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