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"What a wealth of information is packed into the first 23 pages. This will be a long, long read. I intend to savor it." — May 21, 2012 12:39PM
"What a wealth of information is packed into the first 23 pages. This will be a long, long read. I intend to savor it." — May 21, 2012 12:39PM
“Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as lambs in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it, if they can. Whenever a person proclaims to you 'In worldly matters I'm a child,' you consider that that person is only a crying off from being held accountable, and that you have got that person's number, and it's Number One. Now, I am not a poetical man myself, except in a vocal way, when it goes round a company, but I'm a practical one, and that's my experience. So's this rule. Fast and loose in one thing, Fast and loose in everything. I never knew it fail. No more will you. Nor no one.”
― Bleak House
― Bleak House
“I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.”
― Wives and Daughters
― Wives and Daughters
“ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
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― The First Circle
― The First Circle
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