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    November (Gustave Flaubert)

    I placed my destiny in the hands of this chance encounter, but she passed by like all the others, like the last ones and the next ones, and then I would come down to earth, in a sorrier state than a torn sail drenched by the storm.

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    This should show that you understand the background issues and theories relating to the project.

    (Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education)

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    "Pity! Why pity me!" Marmeladov suddenly cried out, rising with his hand stretched forth, in decided inspiration, as if he had only been waiting for these words.

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    'Thus contact between foreigners and Chinese was carried out in the language of the foreigners (usually a pidgin variety of English), with the compradores acting as translators.'

    from 'China's English: A History of English in Chinese Education' by Bob Adamson

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    Quartet in Autumn (Barbara Pym)

    No doubt it was a secret thing.

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    "Add the chicken pieces and the chopped onion."

    Making the Most of Chicken, Poultry and Game, John Carrier's Kitchen

    (shame of the sentence, he can really write some tasty stuff!)
    One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.

    "Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)

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    He gave a faint sigh of satisfaction as he breathed in the pine-scented air of the garden and watched a ship making its way under an azure sky towards the port of Salerno.

    A Tangled Web by Emil Miller.
    "L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.

    "Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.

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    With gloss on one end, tuberose and incense on the other, this rollerball is a jetsetter's dream.

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    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda


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    'Why, look around you: blood is flowing in rivers, and in such a jolly way besides, like champagne.'

    - Dostoevsky, 'Notes From underground'

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    "They got company tonight." Versh said.
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    "Well, then, it must be someone else."

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    "I'm relying on you, my dear friend," Anna Pavlovna said, also softly, "you'll write to her and tell me comment le pere envisagera la chose. Au revoir." And she left the front hall.

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    Quote Originally Posted by papayahed View Post
    With gloss on one end, tuberose and incense on the other, this rollerball is a jetsetter's dream.

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    Huh ?
    I'm picturing a roller ball pen with incense burning at one end (?)
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    "In the case of hyphens, I have regularized among the selections to the extent of inserting them wherever internal divisions appeared in the form of spacing."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle View Post
    Huh ?
    I'm picturing a roller ball pen with incense burning at one end (?)
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    Lip gloss AND perfume in one stick!!

    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda


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    and opened the door, saying, "I beg your pardon."
    -Tolstoy- Resurrection
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