"You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought."
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"Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe."
"But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?"
"Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right."
"A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist."
"Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead."
"And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox."
"I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say."
"if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!"
"Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty."
"Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said."
"All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari."
"I said nothing of the sort."
"So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works."
"I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time."
"I got it this time, Daddy Warbucks," I said."
"If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that."
"You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen?"
"I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there."
"I sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?" "My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this?"