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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American…
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A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed…
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas…
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...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every…
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the…
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No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no…
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Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as…
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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
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Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.
— Charlotte Gray
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The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so…
— Eckhart Tolle
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An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because…
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A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a…
— Robert Breault
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The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is…
— Joy Williams
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