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• That was ridiculous," I told Dorian, once she'd left. "She's not the kind of person to fall for your flirting." "On the contrary," said Dorian. "She's exactly the kind of person to fall for it. I understand these warrior maids, you know. They live such harsh, cold lives, always trying to keep up with the men... when really, they just need someone to make them feel like a woman. And that, of course, is an area in which I excel. Why, if I'd had ten minutes alone with her—

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Warrior, Flirting

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1331, Zebra Books

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• Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Feet, Shadow

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• Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.

  Deborah Harkness

  Control Myself, Voice, Might

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.156, Penguin

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• If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Blood, People

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.481, Simon and Schuster

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• Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Numbers, Bird

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• khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Greek

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• Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

  Benjamin Franklin

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• I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind. That's too harsh, or too self-righteous: none of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.

  Garth Greenwell

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Acceptance, Roots, Joy

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• There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Erring, Judgment, Young

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• Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

  John Dryden

  Shining, Lines, Cadence

  "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham" l. 15 (1684)

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• Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

  Linda Colley

  Reality, Essentials, Warfare

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• Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Passion, Hands, Broken

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 357, 1895.

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• I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Uncles, Laughter

  "My Life". Book by William J. Clinton, 2004.

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• Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Example, Would Be

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.196

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• Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict truly wants help, it is available, but it is a rocky path. The monster always calls. Never give an addict money. Clothe them. Feed them. But enabling them is the quickest path to watching them fade away completely. This may seem harsh. But I've watched my own child relapse, after six years sober. I love her. Always. But I can't help her die.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Children, Believe, Years

  Source: monsterlibrarian.com

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• Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

  Ralph Ellison

  Faces, Injustice, Shows

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Going to the Territory”, p.91, Vintage

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• I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

  Jennifer Harrison

  Hostile, Amount

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• As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Christian, Sweet, Song

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• There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moon, Lunch, Mistress

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• I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.

  Katherine Paterson

  War, Loss, Reality

  Katherine Paterson (2012). “Read for Your Life #21”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Medicine, Faces, Facts

  Source: collider.com

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• (F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Years, Achievement, Crow

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• I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.

  Deepika Padukone

  Jobs, Luxury, Half

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Enemy, Vices

  John Dryden (1850). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.123

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