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They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.
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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired, is something; but to inherit his property afterwards: that is a real pleasure!
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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
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Once you got Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
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Across valleys of space and time we strain ourselves to catch the pale smoke of each other's signals.
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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Patience, thought Milligan, that word was invented by dull buggers who couldn't think quick enough.
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