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Arrange whatever pieces come your way. - [Organization] Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. - [Past] Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - [Humor] I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - [Authors : Women] Language is wine upon the lips. - [Language] Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning. - [Life] Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. - [Literature] Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for. - [Money] One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. - [Dining] One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. - [Liking] What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. - [Humor] Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. - [Poetry] Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size. - [Women] One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. - Hours in a Library, found in the "Times Literary Suppliement" (London, Nov. 30, 1916) [Medicine] Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. - Mrs. Dalloway [Books (First Lines)] He--for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it--was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters. - Orlando [Books (First Lines)] It was an uncertain spring. The weather, perpetually changing, sent clouds of blue and purple flying over the land. - The Years [Books (First Lines)] "Yes, of course," if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added. - To the Lighthouse [Books (First Lines)]
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