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• If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resist speaking about him and making him known and loved by many of your friends and contemporaries.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  People, Able, Christ

  Message for World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. February 22, 2009.

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• I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love of their brothers and sisters and of all persons. In this way you exercise the prophetic ministry that the Lord has entrusted to the Church, and in particular to the Successors of the Apostles (cf. Pastores Gregis, 26).

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Brother, Exercise, Cfs

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• Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Light, Giving, People

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1557, GENERAL PRESS

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• You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

  Joss Whedon

  People, Problem

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• Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.

  Lauren Kate

  Party, School, Kids

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.38, Delacorte Press

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• The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked… Her self, then, was represented in her books; her times in her records; and the rest of the room she thought of as a pure, blank slate.

  Claire Messud

  Wall, Book, Self

  FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Aug 23, 2012

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• How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.

  Ann Brashares

  Expression, Waiting, Serious

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.226, Random House

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• Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

  Anne Monroe

  Sadness, Goes On, Trouble

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• There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Son, Italian, Winning

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• I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." He's right. We did. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Eye, Arrows

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• My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Permanent, Temporary

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• The key is for you to discover what you love to do, what you were created to do, and then do it for the people around you with love. That is the abundant life, dear girl, no matter where in the world you live.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Girl, Keys, People

  Robin Jones Gunn (2012). “Finally and Forever”, p.61, Harper Collins

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• Stop it!' He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken and suffered for it. Please, my dear wife, believe me, this is not the same situation...'...I turned back to Holmes and hissed, 'If you're wrong, I shall be extremely angry with you.' Then O kissed him hard on the lips, more threat than affection, and let him step back into his cell...'However, Russ? I think that, all in all, given the choice, I prefer you with the hair and without the moustache.

  Laurie R. King

  Believe, Taken, Thinking

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• Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Believe, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.230, Macmillan

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• Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail

  Nora Ephron

  Good Night, Book, Brave

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jul 05, 2013

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• I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

  George Eliot

  Hate, People, I Can

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2860, Delphi Classics

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• My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Flower, Eden, Rose

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• Lord Grantham: ‘My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.

  Jessica Fellowes

  Lord, Chapters, Fellows

  Jessica Fellowes (2012). “The World of Downton Abbey Text Only”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• Dear Valentine, I have thought of you often. Not all the time, but often.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Valentine, Thoughts Of You

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• Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.

  Steven Morrissey

  Boots, World, Grime

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• Dear Sweetheart, Without you my days are endless. Days seem like weeks... Weeks feel like months... Months like years... Years like centuries... Centuries like... You get the idea.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Years, Ideas, Months

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• Dear Sweetheart, do you ever think of me? Just the other day I was thinking of you. I'm pretty sure it was you.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Thinking Of You, Sweetheart, Think Of Me

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• Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope. "Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. "Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--" "What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.

  Brandon Mull

  Girl, Grandma, Thinking

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• Well," said Apollo with a brave smile. "You were right, my dear. You had everything under control! Let's go see if we boiled anyone important, shall we?

  Rick Riordan

  Brave, Important, Apollo

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• That's right. Uh-huh. Uh-huh," Nick said arrogantly. "You might know karate, boy, but I know gorilla, and I'm a level 40 champion in it. Let's hear it for Diddy Kong! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew!" He mimicked the sound of a gorilla as he held on for dear life.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Champion, Sound

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