I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical.
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He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.
She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.
I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman.
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course–with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here–to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.