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It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.
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| Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby |
Mr. Melas, however, still lived, and in less than an hour, with the aid of ammonia and brandy I had the satisfaction of seeing him open his eyes, and of knowing that my hand had drawn him back from that dark valley in which all paths meet.
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Greek Interpreter |
Let them be. Let them lie unspoken of, in his breast. However distinctly or indistinctly he entertained these thoughts, he arrived at the conclusion, Let them be. Among the mighty store of wonderful chains that are for ever forging, day and night, in the vast iron-works of time and circumstance, there was one chain forged in the moment of that small conclusion, riveted to the foundations of heaven and earth, and gifted with invincible force to hold and drag.
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| Charles Dickens | The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
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| Gilbert Parker | The Right of Way |
I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem.
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Captain of the Polestar |
The well of true wit is truth itself, the gathering of the precious drops of right reason, wisdom's lightning; and no soul possessing and dispensing it can justly be a target for the world, however well armed the world confronting her.
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| George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways |
Apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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| Baroness Emmuska Orczy | I Will Repay |
"He's a comical old fellow," said Scrooge's nephew, "that's the truth: and not so pleasant as he might be. However, his offences carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him."
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| Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol |
To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.
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| Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge |
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet |
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