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    “The rusted embroidery hoops left an unsightly orange ring on the linen that may have damaged my prospects for good.”
    Barbara Kingsolver
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    The Poisonwood Bible
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    Leah Price
    character
    hobbies
    embroidery
    damages
    despair
    concepts
    02
    “If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in the way to their end (which is principally their own conservation, and sometimes their delectation only) endeavour to destroy or subdue one another.”
    03
    “Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
    04
    “How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.”
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    She was often amused by her mother’s ways; sometimes ashamed of them; sometimes distressed by them.
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    “Ferreting in one’s soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed.”
    07
    His whole life was make-believe, and just now he was pretending to be a philanthropist.
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    “Haydée is a very uncommon name in France, but is common enough in Albania and Epirus; it is as if you said, for example, Chastity, Modesty, Innocence,—it is a kind of baptismal name, as you Parisians call it.”
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    “I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner.”
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    “Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.”

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