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The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.
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If, being duke and peer, you would not be contented with my standing uncovered before you, but should also wish that I should esteem you, I should ask you to show me the qualities that merit my esteem. If you did this, you would gain it, and I could not refuse it to you with justice; but if you did not do it, you would be unjust to demand it of me; and assuredly you would not succeed, were you the greatest prince in the world.
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The phone rings every day. I say, 'No, of course it's not true, ' and hang up. We joke about it, because it's usually when Brad and I are running after the kids and changing diapers. The fact is, we don't do anything. We hardly ever leave the house.
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I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.
from the book "Jane Eyre" by Gary Fukungaga
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I envy your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?
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Erotica is using a feather; pornography is using the whole chicken.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
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Are you Canadian? Oh, ok, 'cause you're sure as hell acting like one right now.
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Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.
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Suicide, moreover, was at that time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
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