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Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

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they could keep order better than a foreigner, and, since they knew the grammar as well as any Frenchman, it seemed unimportant that none of them could have got a cup of coffee in the restaurant at Boulogne unless the waiter had known a ...more

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“APPEAL, v.t. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“Good Lord, you’re funny, too! Is there anything you aren’t?” “A salesman,” he said.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

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“We’ve outgrown the kind of barbarism that used to bring war into the heart of the high civilizations!”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

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“Since he was very young he had known that in certain ways he was unlike anyone else he knew. For a child the consciousness of such difference is very painful, since, having done nothing yet and being incapable of doing anything, he cannot justify it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

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“She took his arm. He stopped short, as if her touch had electrocuted him on the spot.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

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