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He deceived me by telling the truth.

Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.

post-prandial hour. But oftener than not when these occasions occurred,

He exhibited three portraits, each a masterpiece, which killed every picture within range.

Bits of exultation kept peeping out, and Lucia kept poking them back.

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

and it is only in loneliness, as Goethe says, that your perceptions put forth their flowers.

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.

No proper person fusses about death; that's a train which we are all sure to catch.