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Ford Madox Ford
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Being correspondent of a Left paper with a name like Eisenstein deprived one of one’s chance of usefulness. Besides.
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I am not going to be so American as to say that all true love demands some sacrifice. It doesn’t. But I think that love will be truer and more permanent in which self-sacrifice has been exacted.
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Sylvia knew he was only now formulating his settled opinion so as not to have his active brain to give to the discussion.
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And Paris, when you avoid the more conspicuous resorts, and when you are unprovided with congenial companionship can prove nearly as overwhelming as is, say, Birmingham on a Sunday.
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In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection. Yet first impressions have always a bias in their favour, and even quiet reflection has often a job to efface them.
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I couldn’t regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.
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No, by God, it is false! It wasn’t a minuet that we stepped; it was a prison – a prison full of screaming hysterics, tied down so that they might not outsound the rolling of our carriage wheels as we went along the shaded avenues of the Taunus Wald.
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