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<Judgments:>

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures,...
that most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded" man
I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.
Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues,...
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment
There was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound a the difference between the sick and the well.
the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves

<Observations:>

so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air
a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end
... said Miss Baker to the four cocktails just in from the pantry.
exchanged a short glance consciously devoid of meaning
Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them, strolled back into the library,
... convinced that (easy money) was theirs for a few words in the right key
During the course of her song she had decided, ineptly, that everything was very, very sad.
At intervals she appeared suddenly at his side like an angry diamond.
the satisfaction the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
The automatic quality of Gatsby's answer set us all back at least another minute. ... Amid the welcome confusion of cups and cakes a certain physical decency established itself.
In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
She wanted her life shaped now, immediately - and the decision must be made by some force - of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality - that was close at hand.
over-dream

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