"My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If……" — Frances Hardinge
"My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable."
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42 Quotes by Frances Hardinge
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I want my chirfugging goose back!
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If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
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Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
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When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's…
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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to…
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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for…
— Eckhart Tolle
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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of…
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There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence…
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