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“Cassandra gave him a reproachful glance. “I thought you liked Mr. Severin.” “I do, absolutely. He occupies a high place on the list of things I don’t respect myself for liking, right between street food and filthy drinking songs.” Cassandra was aware that it had always been West’s habit—as well as Devon’s and Winterborne’s—to make sarcastic remarks about Tom Severin, in the way of longstanding friends. But it rankled now in a way it never had before. “After all Mr. Severin has done for our family,” she said quietly, “he deserves more respect than that.” They were all silent, darting surprised glances at her. Until that moment, Cassandra had never dared to utter one word of reproof to him. To West’s credit, he considered the point, and relented. “You’re right,” he said in a different tone. “I beg your pardon for being a facetious arse. But I know both of you well enough to be certain you don’t belong together.” Cassandra met his gaze without blinking. “Is it possible that Mr. Severin and I might know each other in a different way than you know either of us?” “Touché. Is it possible that you might think you know him far less than you actually do?” “Touché,” Cassandra replied reluctantly.”

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Book:Chasing Cassandra
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“What you have made me see,' answered the Lady, 'is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Yet is has happened every day. One goes into the forest to pick food and already the thought of one fruit rather than another has grown up in one’s mind. Then, may it be, one finds a different fruit and not the fruit one thought of. One joy was expected and another is given. But this I had never noticed before–that the very moment of the finding there is in the mind a kind of thrusting back, or setting aside. The picture of the fruit you have not found is still, for a moment, before you. And if you wished–if it were possible to wish–you could keep it there. You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.”

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Author:C.S. Lewis
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“As they pushed through the door a remarkable sight met their eyes: the Muskrat was sitting in the fork of a tree eating a pear. "Where's mother?" asked Moomintroll. "She's trying to get your father out of his room," replied the Muskrat, bitterly. "This is what comes of collecting plants. I've never quite trusted that Hemulen. Well, I hope the Muskrat heaven is a peaceful place, because I shan't be here much longer.”

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Book:Finn Family Moomintroll
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“Et vous, oui vous ! mon cher lecteur ! Vous vous prélassez bien au chaud, sur votre coussiège favori ou dans la cathèdre de votre cabinet de lecture, en tournant d'une main indolente les pages de ce volume où je risque bien de perdre ma santé, ma vie, sans compter ma réputation. Est-ce que vous mesurez seulement que j'ai sué, d'angoisse et de labeur, sur l'ouvrage que vous avez le culot de parcourir comme un conte divertissant ? Vous vous rendez compte de ce que je risque, à vous dévoiler ainsi les dessous de la politique ciudalienne ? Vous croyez peut-être que je fais ça uniquement par plaisir ? Ou par malveillance ? Vous croyez qu'on accouche d'un pavé pareil seulement pour l'agrément de cafarder ? Tant de légèreté, tiens, ça me dégoute ! Alors pour l'épopée du sorcier et de ses deux primates, vous repasserez. Moi, j'en ai ma claque, de l'historiographie ! Et estimez-vous heureux que je vous raconte la fin de mon histoire à moi ! Face à tant d'ingratitude, je pourrais bien tout laisser en plan !”

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Book:Gagner la guerre
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“If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.”

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Book:Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics
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“Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.”

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Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
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