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Quotes from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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1 In the left corner of the ballroom she saw the cream of society gathered together.
2 In the society in which she lived such plain statements produced the effect of the wittiest epigram.
3 Anna Arkadyevna Karenina had friends and close ties in three different circles of this highest society.
4 Although he did go more or less into Petersburg society, his love affairs had always hitherto been outside it.
5 The English fashion of the complete independence of girls was also not accepted, and not possible in Russian society.
6 The highest Petersburg society is essentially one: in it everyone knows everyone else, everyone even visits everyone else.
7 I have already begged you so to conduct yourself in society that even malicious tongues can find nothing to say against you.
8 Her success in society had been greater than that of either of her elder sisters, and greater even than her mother had anticipated.
9 The greater number of the middle-aged people and certain great personages were displeased at the prospect of the impending scandal in society.
10 I want to warn you," he said in a low voice, "that through thoughtlessness and lack of caution you may cause yourself to be talked about in society.
11 When Alexey Alexandrovitch reached the race-course, Anna was already sitting in the pavilion beside Betsy, in that pavilion where all the highest society had gathered.
12 She had not even a hope of being asked for it, because she was so successful in society that the idea would never occur to anyone that she had remained disengaged till now.
13 His mother had been in her youth a brilliant society woman, who had had during her married life, and still more afterwards, many love affairs notorious in the whole fashionable world.
14 She disliked in Levin his strange and uncompromising opinions and his shyness in society, founded, as she supposed, on his pride and his queer sort of life, as she considered it, absorbed in cattle and peasants.
15 After spending two months in Moscow in a state of enchantment, seeing Kitty almost every day in society, into which he went so as to meet her, he abruptly decided that it could not be, and went back to the country.
16 Then the countess told her of more disagreements and intrigues against the work of the unification of the churches, and departed in haste, as she had that day to be at the meeting of some society and also at the Slavonic committee.
17 A beardless youth, one of those society youths whom the old Prince Shtcherbatsky called "young bucks," in an exceedingly open waistcoat, straightening his white tie as he went, bowed to them, and after running by, came back to ask Kitty for a quadrille.
18 The Countess Nordston and Levin got into that relation with one another not seldom seen in society, when two persons, who remain externally on friendly terms, despise each other to such a degree that they cannot even take each other seriously, and cannot even be offended by each other.
19 In the little German watering-place to which the Shtcherbatskys had betaken themselves, as in all places indeed where people are gathered together, the usual process, as it were, of the crystallization of society went on, assigning to each member of that society a definite and unalterable place.
20 Holding herself extremely erect, as always, looking straight before her, and moving with her swift, resolute, and light step, that distinguished her from all other society women, she crossed the short space to her hostess, shook hands with her, smiled, and with the same smile looked around at Vronsky.
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