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• Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  School, Men, Agency

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.187, GENERAL PRESS

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• My my Laura Goodman. I must say that is a charming name for a charming young lady." "Eric's old." I broke in. "Really really old." "Er— really?" Laura asked. "Gosh you don't look even out of your thirties." "Tons of face-lifts. He's a surgical addict. I'm trying to get him help." I added defensively when they both gave me strange looks.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Names, Trying, Eric

  MaryJanice Davidson (2005). “Undead and Unappreciated: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.155, Penguin

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• A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

  Anna Godbersen

  Allies, Sometimes, Natural

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• There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Blood, Phrases, Honest Woman

  Charlotte Bronte (2006). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.258, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I’ll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.

  Franny Billingsley

  Chocolate, Would Be, Tongue

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.264, A&C Black

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• My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

  Oscar Wilde

  Important, Said, Young

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

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• I want a tutor,” Layla said. “It would make doing homework so much easier.” “Me too,” said Kaitlyn. “If Layla gets one, I get one.” “No daughter of mine will ever have a tutor,” Dad said. “What if we’re failing a course?” asked Layla. His graying eyebrows drew together. “If you fail a single course, young lady, we will pull you out of school and get you a job scrubbing toilets for the rest of your life.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Daughter, Jobs, Dad

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• I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

  Jane Austen

  Nice, Book, Mean

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• Not true,” said Adrian. “All guys mean the same thing when they want to ‘get to know a girl better.’ You’re a wellbred young lady, so I understand why you’d be too innocent to understand. Good thing you’ve got me here to interpret.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Mean, Guy

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.91, Penguin

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• She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

  Fanny Burney

  Encouragement, Excellence, Half

  Fanny Burney, Evelina (fict.name.) (1808). “Evelina: or The history of a young lady's entrance into the world [by F. Burney].”, p.144

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• There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.

  Edward Gorey

  Black, Stopping, Firsts

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• I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Eye, Half, Facts

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.597, University of Illinois Press

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• I love love
  I love being in love
  I don't care what it does to me
  The Format, in "Inches and Failing".
  Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me-at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not-awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Nice, Being In Love

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• Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Brother, Humorous, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “Mysteries and Adventures”, Lulu.com

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• Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

  Joshua Slocum

  Party, Rain, Cities

  Joshua Slocum (2005). “Sailing Alone around the World”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

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• There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night.

  Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

  Night, Light, One Day

  "Relativity" l. 1 (1923)

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• That was a foul, young lady. You know that was a foul. Don't ask dumb questions.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Media, Nba, Dumb

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• Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Disappointment, Grief, Believe

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.2988, Delphi Classics

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• Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

  Jane Austen

  Care, Plant, Should

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1082, Ageless Reads

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• I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Giving, World

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• If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

  Hannah More

  Littles, Modesty, Parades

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.344

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• once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg ... Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Confidence, Night, Men

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• One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Girl, Regret, School

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• I have so much more to go through as a young lady. But oh my God. I feel like I can do anything.

  Brandy Norwood

  Young, Feels, Can Do

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• I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.

  Danny Pintauro

  Girl, School, College

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