“Some people have been noted to be able to read in no book but their own.”
― Tom Jones
― Tom Jones
“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.”
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“I believe it is a true observation, that few secrets are divulged to one person only; but certainly, it would be next to a miracle that a fact of this kind should be known to a whole parish, and not transpire any farther.”
― Tom Jones
― Tom Jones
“for it is a secret well known to great men, that, by conferring an obligation, they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.”
― Tom Jones
― Tom Jones
“As this is one of those deep observations which very few readers can be supposed capable of making themselves, I have thought proper to lend them my assistance; but this is a favour rarely to be expected in the course of my work. Indeed, I shall seldom or never so indulge him, unless in such instances as this, where nothing but the inspiration with which we writers are gifted can possibly enable anyone to make the discovery.”
― The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
― The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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