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He smiled understandingly--much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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| George Orwell | Animal Farm |
"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
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| George Orwell | Animal Farm |
They never pulled the curtains till it was too dark to see, nor shut the windows till it was too cold. Why shut out the day before it was over? The flowers were still bright; the birds chirped. You could see more in the evening often when nothing interrupted, when there was no fish to order, no telephone to answer.
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| Virginia Woolf | Between the Acts |
Women live much more in the past than we do, he thought. They attach themselves to places.
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| Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway |
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less."
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| Lewis Carroll | Through the Looking-Glass |
"Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night."
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| George R. R. Martin | A Game of Thrones |
Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.
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| George R. R. Martin | A Clash of Kings |
"The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes—no one living knows more of mine than I."
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| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Return of Tarzan |
But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
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| Herman Melville | Bartleby, the Scrivener |
