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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
I want to know one thing. What is color?
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.
Continue to grow and evolve.
The trodden worm curls up. Thus is reduces its chance of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility.
Whoever only reads to transcribe shining remarks, without entering into the genius and spirit of the author, will be apt to be misled out of the regular way of thinking; and all the product of all this will be found a manifest incoherent piece of patchwork.
The General has got the gout, and Mrs. Maitland the jaundice. Miss Debary, Susan, and Sally, all in black, but without any stature, made their appearance, and I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me.
It is some commendation that we have avoided to characterize any person without long experience.
Hats. They can be great fun. And it is true that they can put a woman in a good mood. Anyone who laughs at this fact just knows nothing about the finer points of woman's capacity for survival.
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