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Look, the truth belongs to the guy who's best at sticking to his story,' said Ferguson.

There is often an inverse correlation between genius and personal hygiene.

Life does often get in the way of one's reading.

I am to be converted to the joys of knitting,' said Mrs. Ali, smiling at the Major.
'My condolences,' he said.

Clean of officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff-edge As when the Romans came.

Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit.

I miss being a student," said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.

We all pick and choose and make our religion our own, do we not?

...so Beatrice, who was tired of people feeling free to interrogate on her determination to live free of a husband, bit her lip and did not answer.

I wish you a strong heart and the love of family this afternoon.

Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.

earpiece in his ear.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

Suffragettes!" whispered Agatha as if communicating a great scandal. "I'm quite sure invitations to tea are being quietly withdrawn all over the room.

The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone.

You Anglo-Saxons have largely broken away from such dependence on family. Each generation feels perfectly free to act alone and you are not afraid.

Sometimes you can't fix everything," said Amina. "Life isn't always like books."
"No, it's not.

Humiliation is the sport of the petty

How anyone could doubt the patriotism of my dachshunds is just shocking,

I am not loitering" said the Major. "I am simply indulging in a few moments of pastoral solitude"...

grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child's math book.

Such an awful fragility of love he thought that plans are made and broken and remade in these gaps between rational behavior.

a minute,' said Roger. 'You must ask

I said we would be informal," said Agatha. "I did not say we would be eccentric.

Do you really know what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?" "Is there any other kind?

America wielded her huge power in the world with a brash confidence that reminded him of a toddler who has got hold of a hammer.

The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think

And after all, everyone needs a few flaws to make them real.

It took him a moment to realize that they had been painted to look like fingernails, and he sighed over the extraordinary range of female vanities.

He was struck by the thought that he was often lonely, even in the midst of many friends.

War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires.

He wondered whether it was his fault Roger had the perceptiveness of concrete.

But of course we do not like to listen to our mothers," said Mrs. Ali, smiling. "At least, not until long after we are mothers ourselves.

Compromises are often built on their being unspoken.

I can't abide people who dislike dogs,

It was an old story so rubbed with retelling that the edges were blurry.

There is nothing more corrosive to character than money.

They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married.

You cannot run away from what's in your heart.

As I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.

It is the unexpected note that makes the poem. You, Hugh, are the unexpected note. (pg 554)

It's only now I realize how easy it was to do so on the backs of other women's sons.

It's so much easier to tell other people how to do their job than fix one's own shortcoming, isn't it?