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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
Helen Rowland / Journalist
Girl
Attentions
Exchanges
She
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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
Mary Wilson Little /
Bored
Success People Who
Attentions
Penalty
Success Is
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Laurence Sterne / Novelist
Marriage
Alarms
Courtship
Numbers
Quiet
Understood
Vague
Vagueness
Alarm
Attentions
Consists
Nor
Pointed
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When some women literally throw themselves at you, it's easy to get confused and think that every woman is eager for your attentions.
Ruth Westheimer / Author
Confused
Attentions
Eager
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
Ulysses S. Grant / 18Th U.s. President
Appreciate
Country
Proud
Receiving
I Am Me Country
I Am Me More
Attentions
Intended
Personally
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When Prince Andrew tired of romancing a pretty dancer and turned his attentions to Koo Stark, he instructed the Buckingham Palace switchboard not to put her through when she rang.
Ingrid Seward /
Andrew
Dancer
Tired
Attentions
Instructed
Palace
Rang
Stark
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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Mary Wollstonecraft / Writer
Women
Diversity
Manly
Pay
Receiving
Sex
Superiority
Thinking
Men Women Sex
Women Are
Attentions
Degraded
Fact
Women Men Sex
In Fact
Supporting
Systematically
Trivial
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.
Richard Francis Burton / Translator
Angry
Earnest
Fall
Fit
Passion
Son
Attentions
Daily
Falling
Governor
Mostly
Poets
Proved
Travellers
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There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
Ralph Fiennes / Actor
Attention
Return
Tension
Want
Womb
Attentions
Overly
Maternal
Relationships
Wanting
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen / Novelist
Inspiring
Attention
Delicacy
Flattering
Impulse
May
Study
Talent
Ask
Attentions
Moment
Pleasing
Possess
Previous
Proceed
Result
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
John Burroughs / Essayist
Courteous
Grass
Males
Spring
Attentions
Challenging
Early
Graceful
Prettier
Restrained
Robin
Sights
Warriors
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Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Elsewhere
Forthcoming
Notes
Attentions
Editor
Manuscript
Page
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What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you. It frames your thoughts in such a way that grabs people's attentions and forces them to hear the things that you're actually saying.
Daveed Diggs /
Thoughts Your People
Attentions
Perform
Effectively
Figuring
Forces
Frames
People Way Your
Poem
Thoughts
Such A Way
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I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.
Kim Harrison / Author
Credit
Formal
Ignorance
Prepared
School
Writing
Considered
Attentions
Great Deal
Guide
Whatsoever
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The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.
Rachel Cusk / Novelist
Attention
Ecstasy
Mean
Mother
Normality
Return
Stable
Alone Mother Me
Anorexic
Attentions
Feed
Constitute
Dreaded
Escape
Grip
Held
Notice
Test
Threaten
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I recognize that it often serves competitors best to talk past each other - especially when you are trying to claim the fleeting attentions of voters on a debate stage or on social media. But think how much more clarity we could get if the people who wanted to be president clearly explained why he or she is the better choice.
Gwen Ifill / Journalist
Clarity
Competitors
Debate
Fleeting
Social Media
Voters
Attentions
Claim
Explained
He Or She
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