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“When she was about sixty-eight years old, Brave Orchid took a day off to wait at San Francisco International Airport for the plane that was bringing her sister to the United States. She had not seen Moon Orchid for thirty years. She had begun this waiting at home, getting up a half-hour before Moon Orchid's plane took off in Hong Kong. Brave Orchid would add her will power to the forces that keep an airplane up.”
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“Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any ... ”
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“Another important point regarding yachting parties; the host must supply a gig or rowboat to carry his guests to and from the shore ... ”
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“I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.”
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“Fact makes a hard bed for the harassed, the outnumbered, the weary.”
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“... the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.”
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“... the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.”
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“Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.”