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“Лавранс помолчал немного, прежде чем ответить:
– Да, все это кажется очень красивым, когда об этом слышишь в рыцарских сагах каких-нибудь южных стран. Но мы сейчас не в Бретани, и вы, вероятно, тоже потребовали бы большего от человека, которого собираетесь взять в зятья, чем способности заставлять вашу дочь падать без чувств от любви к нему на глазах у всех…”
― Кристин, дочь Лавранса
– Да, все это кажется очень красивым, когда об этом слышишь в рыцарских сагах каких-нибудь южных стран. Но мы сейчас не в Бретани, и вы, вероятно, тоже потребовали бы большего от человека, которого собираетесь взять в зятья, чем способности заставлять вашу дочь падать без чувств от любви к нему на глазах у всех…”
― Кристин, дочь Лавранса
“Life is precisely that which she and others were prodigiously killing — the moment itself.”
― The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
― The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
“That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“Besides, I long for men's company: the prattle of the little girls — much though I love them — drives me to an earlier and earlier breakfast, to a later and even later dinner, so that presently the two will meet, as they did in Avicenna's tale.”
― The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
― The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
“There are, as you know better than I — far better, indeed, a good many of our people are . . .' Here he hesitated trying to find which was least offensive: Papists? Romans? Mumbo-Jumbo certainly would not do. People of the old faith sounded obsequious. 'Most of them are Irish, of course; though quite a few come from the English north country. And then there are the mere foreigners . . . that is to say, the foreigners.'
'There is something to be said for the word Catholics. It is in general use in Ireland.”
― The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
'There is something to be said for the word Catholics. It is in general use in Ireland.”
― The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
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