Isabel Allende
Novelist
"We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test."
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Reserves
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Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one."
Cato the Younger
Politician
"In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve."
Louisa May Alcott
Novelist, Poet
"…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious."
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"If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again."
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"I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder."
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"Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major"
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"We have to reserve the right to bomb the niggers."
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"The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching’s universe and then ten thousand more. Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve."
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"Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve."
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"A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves."
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"I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute."
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