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My word! You must be a prophet, Monsieur Vautrin!" said Madame Vauquer. "I am all sorts of things," said Jacques Collin.

With each word her voice rose higher, like a soaring bird. But at the last word it was as if the bird when it had reached the ceiling suddenly fell down dead

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Bij de Zon, Maan en Sterren en de Gouden Appels van het Westen!

You ask me why a soft numbness diffuses all my inmost senses with deep oblivion, as though with thirsty throat I'd drained the cup that brings the sleep of Lethe.

If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.

The gentle maid, whose hapless tale, these melancholy pages speak; say, gracious lady, shall she fail To draw the tear a down from thy cheek?

It is sinful to cherish those whom heaven has doomed to destruction.

Perhaps we admire certain qualities in Rome only because we are Jews—just as our being Jews makes us the implacable enemies of other qualities that Rome embraces.

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

The easiest way to hide a relationship is not to attempt to hide it.

A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot water had already been brought. It was his way of asserting power, Treslove thought. No doubt Nietzsche, too, ordered more hot water than he needed.

In a letter to the editor of the (now, sadly, defunct) magazine The Sciences (vol. 35

On the other hand, the Santa Claus hypothesis is highly empirically successful for five-year-olds, but, of course, five-year-olds are very limited in their ability to test hypotheses

Unfortunately, this is so obviously a convention of bad fiction that it might as well read, 'Looking in the mirror, Joe saw a tall, brown-haired man, trapped in a poorly written novel.

He vacated a myriad times in the naively prolonged girl.

We do not propose any rules; we offer observations. "No right on red" is a rule. "Driving at high speed toward a brick wall usually ends badly" is an observation.

Personality is by nature incongruous, being a product of time. Time, at any given moment, tends to obscure this.

Muriel and Zachary's Maine coon cat was named 'Epilogue' for the fact that he concludes the lives of so many mice.

Muriel sometimes put her emotions on highest exhibit by exaggerating a suppression of them.

Such were the travelers along the way; but fat abbot, rich esquire, or money-laden usurer came there none.

Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Too often the price exacted by society for security and respectability is that the Christian movement in its formal expression must be on the side of the strong against the weak.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.