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1 " Without the discipline of work, they had invented the discipline of etiquette, and it had become just as ruthless a master. "
― Anne Perry , Paragon Walk (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #3)
2 " He was far too smooth, too wry and subtle to be from the great wind-and-snow-driven plains of Canada. "
3 " Death from hunger happened a hundred yards from death from obesity. "
4 " Charlotte felt a pity for her, because her world was changing, and she did not understand it; it had no place for her. She was like one of Mr. Darwin’s dinosaurs, dangerous and ridiculous, beyond its time. "
5 " Nothing invites imitation like apparent success. The "
6 " The success of the lie depends a great deal upon how much the hearer wishes to believe it,” she replied. "
7 " Trouble is, he wasn’t clever enough to pretend to be a little less clever. "
8 " Success without envy was like snails without sauce—and, as any cultivated woman knew, the sauce is everything! "
9 " Death was pain and sickness, and terror of the long, blind, last step. "
10 " One pretends nothing can be done; therefore, one can do nothing and feel perfectly justified. I think it is only another kind of dishonesty, "
