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You haven’t told me yet how and what you think about me, and I keep wanting to know. But I’m glad you will see me as I am. The chief thing I shouldn’t like would be for people to imagine I want to prove anything. I don’t want to prove anything; I merely want to [...]
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Grass is greener
On the bridge was a crowd of peasant women with coils of ties for the sheaves on their shoulders, gaily and noisily chattering. They stood still on the bridge, staring inquisitively at the carriage. All the faces turned to Darya Alexandrovna looked to her healthy and happy, making her envious of their enjoyment of life. [...]
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2.27.08
Breaking News AlertThe New York TimesWednesday, February 27, 2008 — 11:25 AM ET—–William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead at 82William F. Buckley Jr., who marshaled polysyllabicexuberance, famously arched eyebrows and a refined,perspicacious mind to elevate conservatism to the center ofAmerican political discourse, died Wednesday at his home inStamford, Conn.
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Jealousy
For the first minute she had been offended at his jealousy; she was angry that the slightest amusement, even the most innocent, should be forbidden her; but now she would readily have sacrificed, not merely such trifles, but everything, for his peace of mind, to save him from the agony he was suffering.- Kitty from [...]
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Letters
Countess Lidia Ivanovna usually wrote some two or three letters a day to Alexey Alexandrovitch. She enjoyed that form of communication, which gave opportunity for a refinement and air of mystery not afforded by their personal interviews. -Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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2.5.08
wanderlust
derive
Luddite
zeitgeist
xenophobia
fraught
meliorist vs apologism
profligate
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Freethinker
But he’s a queer fish, and quite without breeding. You know, one of those uncouth new people one’s so often coming across nowadays, one of those free-thinkers you know, who are reared _d’emblee_ in theories of atheism, scepticism, and materialism. In former days,” said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that [...]
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