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“What dost thou know of suffering and oppression? I and my people know, but not thou.”
― The Prince and the Pauper
― The Prince and the Pauper
“Most sincere things feel at least a little embarrassing. It’s part of our defense mechanisms. Our heart’s way of protecting us from potential hurt.”
― This Time It's Real
― This Time It's Real
“Why I hoarded up this last wretched little rag of the robe of hope that was rent and given to the winds, how do I know! Why did you who read this, commit that not dissimilar inconsistency of your own, last year, last month, last week?”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“I am ashamed to say it,' I returned, 'and yet it's no worse to say it than to think it. You call me a lucky fellow. Of course, I am. I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am—what shall I say I am—to-day?'
'Say a good fellow, if you want a phrase,' returned Herbert, smiling, and clapping his hand on the back of mine—'a good fellow, with impetuosity and hesitation, boldness and diffidence, action and dreaming, curiously mixed in him.”
― Great Expectations
'Say a good fellow, if you want a phrase,' returned Herbert, smiling, and clapping his hand on the back of mine—'a good fellow, with impetuosity and hesitation, boldness and diffidence, action and dreaming, curiously mixed in him.”
― Great Expectations
“They will be scourged; and I, whom they have comforted and kindly entreated, must look on and see the great wrong done; it is strange, so strange! that I, the very source of power in this broad realm, am helpless to protect them. But let these miscreants look well to themselves, for there is a day coming when I will require of them a heavy reckoning for this work. For every blow they strike now they shall feel a hundred then.”
― The Prince and the Pauper
― The Prince and the Pauper
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