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“Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“He comes here at the peril of his life, for the realization of his fixed idea. In the moment of realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him. Do you see nothing that he might do, under the disappointment?”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Once out of this court, I'll smash that face of yourn!”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Halt! ill-born rabble, follow him not nor pursue him, or ye will have to reckon with me in battle!”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote