"I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome."
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Dracula
by
Bram Stoker
"Sir," replied the commander, "I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus."
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
by
Jules Verne
"There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all out kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us."
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A Christmas Carol
by
Charles Dickens
And now set in a fell and fierce fight, one of a thousand of which no chronicler has spoken and no poet sung. Through all the centuries and over all those southern waters nameless men have fought in nameless places, their sole monuments a protected coast and an unravaged country-side.
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The White Company
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Call me Ishmael.
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Moby Dick
by
Herman Melville
"Frailty, thy name is woman!"
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by
William Shakespeare