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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

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The Life of Charles Dickens

by John Forster

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After a short pause, he continued. “You’ve been through an ordeal. You must be hungry. Here, have some cheese.” “Thank you,” said Tim. His next words were a little muffled, which Julian guessed was due to a mouthful of cheese. “Look, I’m ...more

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“A waitress had come out of nowhere. “What can I get you?”

I looked around the table, only to realize that everyone was staring at me. “Uh... five... beers?”

“Five beers.”

“Yup!”

“Any particular kind?”

“…good ones?”

“Can I see your ID?”

“Goddammit.” I handed it over.”
― Mark Hill

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“She was happy, in a bubble, and the only reason to pop it was on the grounds that bubbles were not real life. But bubbles made life tolerable, and the trick was to blow as many as possible. There were new-baby bubbles, and honeymoon bubbles, and success-at-work bubbles, and new-friends bubbles, and great-holiday bubbles, and even tiny TV-series bubbles, dinner bubbles, party bubbles. They all burst without intervention, and then it was a matter of getting through to the next one. Life hadn’t been fizzy for a while. It had been hard.”
― Nick Hornby, Just Like You

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“It was incredible that nature (the blue of the sky was clear like a child's heart) should be so indifferent when men were writhing in agony and going to their death in fear.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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“´The common story, sir!" said Tom; "the story of a common mind. Your governess cannot win the confidence and respect of your children, forsooth! Let her begin by winning yours, and see what happens then." . . . "When you tell me," resumed Tom, who was not the less indignant for keeping himself quiet, "that my sister has no innate power of commanding the respect of your children, I must tell you it is not so; and that she has. She is as well bred, as well taught, as well qualified by nature to command respect, as any hirer of a governess you know. But when you place her at a disadvantage in reference to every servant in your house, how can you suppose, if you have the gift of common sense, that she is not in a tenfold worse position in reference to your daughters?”
― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

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“Philosophers are composed of flesh and blood as well as other human creatures; and however sublimated and refined the theory of these may be, a little practical frailty is as incident to them as to other mortals. It is, indeed, in theory only, and not in practice, as we have before hinted, that consists the difference: for though such great beings think much better and more wisely, they always act exactly like other men. They know very well how to subdue all appetites and passions, and to despise both pain and pleasure; and this knowledge affords much delightful contemplation, and is easily acquired; but the practice would be vexatious and troublesome; and, therefore, the same wisdom which teaches them to know this, teaches them to avoid carrying it into execution.”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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