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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.
“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
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Ninety-Three
― Ninety-Three
“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
“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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