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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
― Mary Shelley

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey