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Sir John had his share–perhaps rather a large share–of the more harmless and amiable of the weaknesses incidental to humanity. Among these, I may mention as applicable to the matter in hand, an invincible reluctance–so long as he enjoyed his usual good health–to face the responsibility of making his will.
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| Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone |
"Death doesn't change us more than life."
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| Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop |
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
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| Edgar Allan Poe | The Black Cat |
Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.
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| Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |
To me it seems that those who are happy in this world are better and more lovable people than those who are not.
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| Samuel Butler | The Way of All Flesh |
Resignation brings a curious large courage--when there is nothing more to lose. The soul takes risks, and dares. Is it a curious short-cut sometimes to the heights?
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| Algernon Blackwood | The Man Whom the Trees Loved |
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the stake.
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| Edgar Wallace | The Clue of the Twisted Candle |
Nature, when planning this sterling fellow, shoved in a lot more lower jaw than was absolutely necessary and made the eyes a bit too keen and piercing for one who was neither an Empire builder nor a traffic policeman.
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| P. G. Wodehouse | Right Ho, Jeeves |
A little more than kin, and less than kind.
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| William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |
To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.
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| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
