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In putting them on, he forgot about them and began, without the slightest malice toward them, to subject them to various forms of abuse.

Managing to overlook his lack of grooming and poor social skills, she was moved by the powerful monologues Day delivered on

I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.

You see? There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant - (sighs deeply). Oh, fuck it. -M. Gustave, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

She stabbed Redford in the back with lefty scissors!

a favourite master, Mr. Grove, liked to say that if we learned to master the semi-colon we could expect to be successful in whatever path we chose in life. One

their spinster amanuensis, the

the entities that possess them, and the extraordinary power that accompanies them, are not necessarily going to also be more ethically advanced than us.

Contrary to many conspiracy theories, Executive Order 13526 establishes three

I have had three different forms as teachers: the grays, the kobolds and now these nameless unknowns

At the same time, I felt a surging release and a sense of freedom, like a man who bursts at last gasp out of a drowning sea.

We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.

They seem to be in a conspiracy to persecute you," she said. "What does it mean?" "Only the protest of the world, Miss Verinder — on a very small scale — against anything that is new.

If it's any comfort to you, collar me again. You don't in the least know how to do it; but I'll overlook your awkwardness in consideration of your feelings.

There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.

I smell your cigar. Delicious! Give me one directly.

That gate, said the under-gardener, turning with great deliberation towards the south, and embracing the whole of that part of England with one comprehensive sweep of his arm. Curious

Mr. Bruff, you have no more imagination than a cow!" "A cow is a very useful animal, Mr. Blake," said the lawyer.

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

never mind about his genius, Mr. Pesca. We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.

If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas.

It was his motto that one lived best by the hidden life—bene vixit qui bene latuit.

Doubt is not a very agreeable state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

a barbarian was a man content to believe without reason and to live without liberty.