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I am trying to use reason and intelligence, said the strange new mongoose. Reason is six-sevenths of treason, said one of his neighbors. Intelligence is what the enemy uses, said another.

After the Fact, a book for college history majors in which they emphasize that history is not a set of facts but a series of arguments, issues, and controversies.

repression of white ethnic groups; again, most textbooks blame the people

Words are important—they can influence, and in some cases rationalize, policy.

Good evening charlie, yes I know you rise, two lean grey spiders drifting through your eyes.

I'll be damned, you're a poet. Welcome to hell.

Now you're generalizing," Ivy said. "So you're thinking of going back to the devil you know?

All things resist destruction, according to their capacity. Rocks, pebbles, diamonds. Unity is instinctive to being.

Samuel Johnson once remarked that it was surprising to find how much more kindness than justice society contained.

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. And yours, he replied with a smile, is willfully to misunderstand them.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity

If her case was pitiable, his was hopeless. His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have deprived himself of all chance of ever being otherwise.

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

I fancy Miss Price has been more used to deserve praise than to hear it…

And this, cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully.

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.