Sunday, October 25, 2015

Brushed by the Grasses of Self-Reproach

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Mae West

You're a fine woman, Lou. One of the finest women that ever walked the streets.

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Pierre-Jules Renard

It should not be thought that laziness is unproductive. Within it, you live intensely, like a hare listening. You swim in it like water; and are brushed by the grasses of self-reproach.

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Charles Dickens (The Pickwick Papers)—

Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a sedan chair.