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We're a compulsive but amiable crew, those of us who feel, or have felt, the compulsion to re-record the bright thoughts of other men and women.

Arthur Garvin's voice was hoarse and adenoidal. He sounded even worse than the day before.

worry, my sweet girl," Todd told her. "I try to be good.

As to her professional future, though, she thought she might retire soon. Just like Celsus Crogher had. Go live somewhere relatively peaceful. Beirut, maybe.

Have you children, Mr Brandstetter?" He shook his head. "I was one once. Does it help?

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Joe attended Xavier High School, a Catholic military academy, and later Fordham University, a Jesuit school.

mouth," says Jack, as sharp as a needle.

who was a fine old king in the old ancient times,

Les opinions subjectives et les sentiments n'ont aucune valeur. La vérité est seulement dans les faits.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

The absence of theistic belief... { Defining the word 'atheism' }

Green eyes like his mother's. Like beautiful marble. You could catch the fever from somebody's eyes.

The belief that wickedness is the province of monsters, not men, is consoling to those who are young. [Bram Stoker]

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

Während Obergruppenführer Kammler damit beschäftigt war, viermal an vier verschiedenen Orten den unterschiedlichsten Todesursachen zu erliegen.

the two military aides with the nuclear codes—ours was the "the football," and because we didn't know what the Russians called theirs, we dubbed it "the soccer ball"—and

All the Sacraments, as acts of their invis ible author and chief minister, Jesus Christ, by vir tue of their immanent dignity, move God to the (physical) production of grace, and hence exert at least a moral causality.

finished the ensemble, with two beady blue eyes looking back at her when she opened

A puff of wind blew out their skirts, and they looked like two wandering flags.

As he spoke he stroked both sides of his mutton-chop whiskers as if he wished to caress simultaneously both halves of the Monarchy

There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.