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• Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fashion, Cat, Tree

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Sunset, Dying, World

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.1, Random House

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• The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Dream, Exercise, Mind

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• Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Government, Dresses

  Common Sense (1776)

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• The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Spring, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

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• New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.

  Henry Miller

  Jobs, New York, Thug

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Who is this? And what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they crossed themselves for fear, All the Knights at Camelot; But Lancelot mused a little space He said, "She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Cheer, Space, Knights

  1832 Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised 1842), pt.4, l.168-71.

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• But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Purple, Luxury

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.242, 谷月社

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• It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time. It is a matter of history, however, that shortly thereafter, the Wizard absconded from the Palace. He left in the way he had first arrived-- a hot-air balloon-- just a few hours before seditious ministers were to lead a Palace revolt and to hold an execution without trial.

  Gregory Maguire

  Heart, Air, Glasses

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• You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant. You mean the sledgehammer, sir? Yes.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Needs, Fetch

  Terry Pratchett (1996). “Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld”, Harper Prism

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• He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If sterner measures are called for, we can find a larger ball and chain." The queen turned and disappeared into the partment. "Oh, dear," Eugenides muttered as he followed...The queen's sterner measures, dispensed by the Eddisian Ambassador, arrived before dawn.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Queens, Dawn, Balls

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• You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

  George MacDonald

  Cottages, Littles, Christianity

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• We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also; and, proud-spirited beings that we are, we will not be put off with a part. Give us only everything, and we will be content. And, after all, Cinderella, you have had your day. Some little dogs never get theirs. You must not be greedy. You have KNOWN happiness. The palace was Paradise for those few months, and the Prince's arms were about you, Cinderella, the Prince's kisses on your lips; the gods themselves cannot take THAT from you.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dog, Heart, Kissing

  Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.30, The Floating Press

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• Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

  Horace

  Grieving, Doors, Cottages

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• Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost fallen from the palace wall and that Costis had seen him manifestly saved by the God of Thieves. The king smiled. "Cat got your tongue?" "Your Majesty, you are drunk," Costis pleaded. "I am. What's your excuse?

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Wall, Cat

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• I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Needs, Need You, My Friends

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• Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.

  China Mieville

  Past, Kraken, Apples

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• Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Ducks, White, Water

  John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.148, Vintage

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• Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He was born lowly, that He might raise men up to God. The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, He loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God's grace.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christmas, Jesus, Men

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• Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  House, Events, Be Good

  'Table Talk' (1835) 9 May 1830

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• The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Europe, Middle East, Groups

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• I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspiration, Cottages, Rich

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• God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Heaven, Secret

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.223

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• You cannot make a cheap palace.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strategy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Penguin

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• God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Garden, Perfection

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

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