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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.
preference
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. Thom Mayne
prefer truth
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense. Ben Carson
preferred
From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier. Charlie White
preference mathematician indifferent
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. Alfred North Whitehead
prefer sold somewhere turned
We prefer to give them away than to have them go somewhere where they will be turned around and sold again. Kristine Fauerbach
prefer
We prefer to do that in a non-public session.
prefer results
We prefer to do a lot of things electronically. We just get better results that way. Any of the streamline stuff, we can do.
preferred release
We preferred to let him recuperate and release him on Thursday. Bernard Laporte
prefer traffic
We prefer not to have our traffic go through that road.