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• You may be right. I think it was round about Christmas when I got my Welsh dragon tattoo.” At that, Tessa had to try very hard not to blush. “How did that happen?” Will made an airy gesture with his hand. “I was drunk…” “Nonsense. You were never really drunk.” “On the contrary—in order to learn how to pretend to be inebriated, once must become inebriated at least once, as a reference point. Six-Fingered Nigel had been at the mulled cider—“ “You can’t mean there’s truly a Six-Fingered Nigel?

  Cassandra Clare

  Tattoo, Mean, Thinking

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• I do promise that you will survive this. Faith, my own heart is so scattered round the country now, I marvel that it has the strength each day to keep me standing. But it does,' she said, and drawing in a steady breath she pulled back just enough to raise a hand to wipe Sophia's tears. 'It does. And so will yours.' 'How can you be so sure?' 'Because it is a heart, and knows no better.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Country, Heart, Hands

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.675, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Kissing, People, Life Is

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Flappers and Philosophers”, p.77, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Moon, Feet

  A. E. Housman (2017). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

  Tracey Emin

  Heart, Soul, Mind

  Tracey Emin (2013). “Strangeland”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• She turned to Skulduggery and held out her arms. “Come here, you.” He tilted his head. “My hugs are for special occasions only.” “Hug me.” “I prefer the old tradition.” “Hug.” “Would a handshake do?” “Hug.” “A pat on the back?” She stepped forward and wrapped her arms round him. “Hug,” she said. He sighed, and his hands settled on her shoulders. The others were warm and their embraces strong – with Skulduggery the hug was cold, and there were areas on his jacket that gave way beneath her fingers, and she could feel the emptiness within. She didn’t mind.

  Derek Landy

  Strong, Hands, Hug

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• Let him treat you like a lady and open the car door for you. If he doesn't automatically open the door for you, stand by the darn thing and don't get into the vehicle until he realises he needs to get hid behind out of the driver's seat and come round and open the car door for you. That's his job!

  Steve Harvey

  Jobs, Doors, Car

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• Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved him enough to stop him. To kill him, if it came to that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hurt, Air, Mad

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• I'll just do a round around of the house and make sure the rest of the family are fast asleep. We don't want that sharp-nosed aunt of yours catching us when we find the diamonds." "What diamonds?" "Think positive for once...Which would you rather, diamonds or the remains of a murdered maidservant? It's all a question of attitude.

  Kerstin Gier

  Attitude, Aunt, Thinking

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• Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.

  Adam Skirving

  Time, Dark, Long

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• Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Children, Lying

  'Come not, when I am dead' (1850)

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• For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.

  Alison Uttley

  Time, Brother, Real

  1948 Carts and Candlesticks.

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• A word of the faith that never balks,
  Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
  It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all,
  That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Wonder, Flaws

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.30, NYU Press

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• No! no arresting the vast wheel of time,
  That round and round still turns with onward might,
  Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night
  Of an unknown hereafter.

  Charles Cowden Clarke

  Time, Night, Might

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• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

  Bill Rancic

  Jobs, Business, Entrepreneur

  Bill Rancic (2009). “You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice”, p.16, Zondervan

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• Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Eye, Home

  Charles Dickens (2003). “A Christmas Carol”, p.182, Broadview Press

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  But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

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• The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!

  Gerald Arpino

  Inspirational, Dance, Fall

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• As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

  Henry Adams

  Play, History, Chinese

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• In all my wanderings round this world of care,
  In all my griefs-and God has given my share-
  I still had hopes my latest hours to crown,
  Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hope, Grief, Humble

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.42

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• So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud,
  Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed
  Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.

  John Keats

  Hope, Sweet, Dark

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.6, Рипол Классик

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• This day I breathed first: time is come round,
  And where I did begin there shall I end;
  My life is run his compass.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Firsts

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. 23

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• So his life has flowed, From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure, Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill, May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Life, Beautiful, Light

  "Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts (Act I, Scene 1)". Book by Thomas Noon Talfourd, 1835.

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• Long and long has the grass been growing,
  Long and long has the rain been falling,
  Long has the globe been rolling round.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Rain, Fall

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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