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• Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked…
• Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
• Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.
• Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you…
• Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
• London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no…
• To think of losing is to lose already.
• The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
• The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
• I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their…
• The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out…
• There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

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