"I'm a firm believer in shades of gray."
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"I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not."
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"I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for."
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"In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged."
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"The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach."
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"Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves."
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"My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves."
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"O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade."
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"That's a sure sign someone is going crazy - when he refers to himself in the third person, talks in low tones, and walks around wearing shades all day!"
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"cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour."
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"And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets."
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"What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?"
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"Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away."
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"Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade."
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"I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade."
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"Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency."
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"Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest."
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"Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye."
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"Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade."
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"Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp."
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