Michelle Cooper Quotes

#1. She seemed to think reading was some sort of hobby, as opposed to being as necessary as breathing, sleeping, and eating.

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#2. Perhaps this is one of the reasons Toby dislikes politics-that some of the people who car most about politics seem to have the least compassion for ordinary human beings.

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#3. Simon called you 'Machiavelli disguised as a debutante.'" "Gosh," I said, not sure whether to feel flattered or insulted.

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#4. If all women were as frail as men seem to believe, the human race would have died out millennia ago.

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#5. There's a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.

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#6. For we carry what we love inside us, always.

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#7. Are any of us non-believers in moments of despair?

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#8. Sometimes I think Life is best summed up as
(a) Awful Bits
and
)b) This That Successfully Distract One from the Awful Bits

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#9. Well, we're all animals, really
just with a veneer of civilization.

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#10. And I'll gaze across the chasm to the other side of the island, where I can still sometimes catch sight of a curly-haired urchin running joyously through the tall purple grass, her faithful dog at her heels.

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#11. The way she told it, the English counties are littered with aging spinsters who accidentally displayed a spark of intelligence at a debutante dance and were banished forever from civilized society

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#12. For are any of us non-believers at moments of despair?

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#13. When I asked her what she'd thought of Pride and Prejudice, she only wondered aloud how anyone could have written a novel set in the first part of the nineteenth century without once mentioning Napoleon.

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#14. Benedict shall protect the house of FitzOsborne now and for eternity.

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