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Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

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I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonis...more

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We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly ...more

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Done because we are too many.

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Good but not religious-good.

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Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.

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Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm.

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...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to th...more

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You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always

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Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?''That's the very thing I say to myse...more

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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage ...more

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But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

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He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he is!''I am afeard nobody ever saw him there. I never...more

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This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

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He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.