It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.
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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
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Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will land among the stars.
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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - The Books in My Life.
He who angers you conquers you.
He who angers you conquers you.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The most complex things are the simplest.
The most complex things are the simplest.
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Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
