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“Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself.”
― The Cuckoo's Calling
― The Cuckoo's Calling
“He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.”
― The Cuckoo's Calling
― The Cuckoo's Calling
“A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
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