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

“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Habitual associates are known to exercise a great influence over each other’s minds and manners. Those whose actions are for ever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will, slowly, gradually, imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“Past tears are present strength.”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes