“Time brought resignation, and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one...”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Nice customs curtsy to great kings.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“trifles make the sum of life.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Of all the train none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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