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• Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time.

  Meg Cabot

  Running, Book, Law

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• ...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

  Marisha Pessl

  Humanity, Secret, Ultimate

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• I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield." Sean glanced at him. "And?" "I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Giving Up, Vampire

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• I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, World, Darcy

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.549, Ageless Reads

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• I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Luxury, Giving

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• A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

  Albert Camus

  Selfish, Passion, Comfort

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

  Robertson Davies

  Autumn, Editors, Fudge

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• It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pain, Pride, Views

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• Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorrow, Scar, Persons

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.723, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Thinking, Sorrow

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.723, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Hold your pen and spare your voice.

  Dorothy Parker

  Voice, Pens

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• Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Phones, Law, Tire

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• Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

  Lian Hearn

  Hate, Men, Knows

  Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.99, Pan Macmillan

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• And spare me the jokes about scoring." "Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?" "It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dirty, Thinking, Mind

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1972, Simon and Schuster

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• All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

  Bertrand Russell

  Time, Neglect, Duty

  "Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties" by Bertrand Russell, 1956.

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• So little time we live in Time,
  And we learn all so painfully,
  That we may spare this hour's term
  To practice for Eternity.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Time, Practice, May

  Robert Penn Warren, John Burt (1998). “The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren”, p.66, LSU Press

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• “The three of you are enough to drive a mara mad. 'She can wear my shirt,’" she growled in imitation of Nash."No, she can wear my shirt," she said switching to Tod's smoother tone.Then Sabine took off down the hall without a glance at any of us."I have a spare. Come on, Kaylee, before I choke on testosterone and melodrama.”

  Rachel Vincent

  Mad, Three, Tone

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.

  David Benatar

  Children, People, Suffering

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Love You, Want, Deserve

  Dashiell Hammett (2002). “Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960”, Counterpoint Press

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• My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.

  Hugh Jackman

  Nike, Growing Up, Father

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• Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Party, Book, Home

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• I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?

  Moby

  People, Guilt, Relax

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• I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

  Moby

  Teaching, College, Community

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• The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

  John Moody

  Lakes, United States, Borders

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Moving, Reading, Effort

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “The Luzhin Defense”, p.7, Penguin UK

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