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character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
smell confusing library
Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone. Alan Bennett
smell paper energy
I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper. Chris Colfer
smell suitcases lists
To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female. Caitlin Flanagan
smell play funky
I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it Buddy Guy
smell should enjoy
We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more. Cary Grant
smell perfect difficulty
When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence. Aiden Wilson Tozer
smell people pull-ups
People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon. Benjamin Percy
smell sight joy
The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell. Edward Gibbon
smell succeed toilets
I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell. David Reuben
sage world may
Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at. Charles Mackay
sage impunity
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity. Anton Chekhov
sage merit attention
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them. Baltasar Gracian
sage doe protection
The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period. Jason Chaffetz
sage
I think that's overrated. Sage will be fine. Bryan Gilmore
sage limits reason
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. Maimonides
sage body made
Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist?" - Clea Raymond Hilary Duff
sage opinion
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. Joseph Glanvill
sage doe profit
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself. Publilius Syrus