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“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”
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“Every good girl loved a bad boy. It was a fact of life, a quirk of nature. Opposites attract, and the badder the boy, the more attractive he was to that good girl who couldn't help but be drawn to him.”
Source : Lora Leigh (2015). “Too Hot to Touch: Three Breeds Novellas”, p.131, Penguin
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“Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery”
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“Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.”
Source : C.P. Snow (2010). “The Search”, p.15, House of Stratus
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“When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.”
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“There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.”
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“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”
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“He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.”