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Samuel had no equal for soothing hysteria and bringing quiet to a frightened child. It was the sweetness of his tongue and the tenderness of his soul. And just as there was a cleanness about his body, so there was a cleanness in his thinking. Men coming to his blacksmith shop to talk and listen dropped their cursing for a while, not from any kind of restraint but automatically, as though this were not the place for it.
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
But Jill hadn’t known that she had any prissiness until she lost it. At last she was able to admit to herself that there was something inside her as happily shameless as a tabby in heat.
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
The monk shook his head. “There’s not a word for it—not a modern one, anyway. The histories call it atma. ‘Self’ might be the best translation. The ak’hanath is tracking your sense of self.” Kaden stared. “That,” Pyrre said, raising an eyebrow, “is by turns fascinating, implausible, and horribly inconvenient.”
The Emperor's Blades
Brian Staveley
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