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They’d be smiling and laughing, grumbling about the infernal heat, but manacle a man and offer him up to torment, and even the meekest soul surrendered itself to the devil.
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Ninety-Three
― Ninety-Three
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Pride And Prejudice
― Pride And Prejudice
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