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“Because he opposed her entering the convent, he had called for all the tempting things of life to speak to her where he had failed, unaware that what he was really putting into her like a probing pain was her last view of him tucking his napkin into the wing collar under his beard, smelling the wine cork before allowing the waiter to pour a drop and drinking the juice from the big rough oyster shells with gusty gourmet pleasure.”
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“That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television — everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.”
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“Equity speaks softly and wins in the end. But it is expedience, with its loud voice, that sets the time of victory.”
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“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.”
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“... marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.”
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“Power ... was the coin of the Washington realm and, without it, you might as well file for bankruptcy.”
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“Alcoholism isn't a spectator sport. Eventually the whole family gets to play. ”
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“... very young people are true but not resounding instruments.”