"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?
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Middlemarch
by
George Eliot
"Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play."
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Dracula
by
Bram Stoker
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
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A Christmas Carol
by
Charles Dickens
I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
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Moby Dick
by
Herman Melville
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
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Frankenstein
by
Mary Shelley