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"Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is."
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| William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida |
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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| Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady |
"I wasn't living apart from my husband then; you see, neither of us could afford to make the other a separate allowance. In spite of everything that proverbs may say, poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up."
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| Saki | The Chronicles of Clovis |
I was discreet. I tried to curb my own emotions and to discourage hers. For my own part I fear that I betrayed myself, for the eye becomes more eloquent when the tongue is silent.
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventures of Gerard |
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.
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| Rafael Sabatini | Captain Blood |
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.
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| Charles Dickens | David Copperfield |
Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next instant, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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| James M. Barrie | The Little Minister |
"My lady, there are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."
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| James M. Barrie | What Every Woman Knows |
"Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home."
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Boscombe Valley Mystery |
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Boscombe Valley Mystery |
