| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." | Jane Austen | Emma |  |
| Perhaps it is that high achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes . . . | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss |  |
| Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement. | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby |  |
| "Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life." | Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan |  |
| You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. | Sir Max Beerbohm | Zuleika Dobson |  |
| "All things are ready, if our minds be so." | William Shakespeare | Henry V |  |
| "Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office, and his tongue sounds ever after as a sullen bell, rememb'red tolling a departing friend." | William Shakespeare | Henry IV, Part Two |  |
| "No one is useless in this world," retorted the Secretary, "who lightens the burden of it for any one else." | Charles Dickens | Our Mutual Friend |  |
| . . . 'tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being. | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Henry Esmond |  |
| "One gets a bad habit of being unhappy." | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss |  |