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He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the…

— Charles Kingsley

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but…

— James Hogg

“his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in…

— George Eliot

I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been…

— Bernard de Mandeville

“They were his environment, these men, and they were moulding the clay of him into a more ferocious thing than had been intended by…

— Jack London

He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in…

— Tom Robbins

He had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

— Anonymous

“He didn't have the loose-limbed cockiness of a man her age, springing to attention with the desire to impress everyone with his agility and…

— Vivienne Lorret

It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

— Saul Bellow

“She reminded him of the small team of Starfleet officers who had rescued him from certain death on his homeworld many years earlier. They,…

— David Mack

He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the…

— Anais Nin

“I formed the impression that nature had given him little patience for fools, while society had cruelly decreed that he spend a great deal…

— Andrew Killeen