"One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks."
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"It happens that once we learn a thing, the motivation to keep it up grows and expands further as well. If you're going through hell, keep going."
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"They lived long that have lived well."
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"I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well."
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"Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé."
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"I'd rather live at the bottom of a well than leave Avonlea."
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"If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well."
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"It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!"
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"Well, I already know what happened to my face", I say. "I was there. Sort of"
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"She is well practiced in the art of losing herself."
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"We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?"
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"But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence."
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"Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns."
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"Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with."
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"Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power."
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"Necessity does everything well."
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"Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not."
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"He is a good man who can receive a gift well."
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"Doing well is a result of doing good."
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"Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed."
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