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You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas, as he preached to himself this sermon, declared to himself that they who attempted more than this flew too high in the clouds to be of service to men and women upon earth.
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| Anthony Trollope | Phineas Finn |
"Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends?"
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| Anthony Trollope | Phineas Finn |
"I don't think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."
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| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |
"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. "
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| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |
"Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty."
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| Ray Bradbury | Dandelion Wine |
"We miss so much out of life if we don't love. The more we love the richer life is—even if it is only some little furry or feathery pet. "
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| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Rainbow Valley |
"Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more."
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| Philip K. Dick | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
For perfect evil always wins something akin to admiration from more common people.
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| Max Brand | Gunman's Reckoning |
"Well, I can imagine many faces more beautiful than Eliza's, though not more charming. I allow she has small claims to perfection; but then, I maintain that, if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting."
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| Anne Bronte | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said . . . was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?
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| Willa Cather | A Lost Lady |
