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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man.
Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers; but if you would once convince profligates by topics drawn from the view of their own quiet, reputation, and health, their infidelity would soon drop off.
We're doing the usual thing we do; officers will be stationed around the stadium.
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some modern prints, copied with tasteless servility after the antigue; the soul is left out, and none of the parts are tied together by what may properly be termed character.
I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
Everyone has his Lambarénè.
The mystics themselves do not seem to have believed their physical and mental sufferings to be a sign of grace, but it is unfortunate that it is precisely physical manifestations which appeal most to the religiosity of the mob. A woman might spend twenty years nursing lepers without having any notice taken of her, but let her once exhibit the stigmata or live for long periods on nothing but the Host and water, and in no time the crowd will be clamoring for her beatification.