A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination. ~Ric Keller
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. ~Jane Austen
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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