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“ There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of things, and talked the same sort of talk. This is the real secret of pleasant society. ”

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There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

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So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a beautiful world it was, and how wonderful it was that they should have found each other, seeing that the world is not only beautiful but rather large.

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It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.

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There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

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