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When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.
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The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects.
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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
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When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is…
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...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions…
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Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves…
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I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
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Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.
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Our king went forth to Normandy, With grace and might of chivalry, The God for him wrought marvellously, Wherefore England may call…
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