“ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“In everything on this earth that is worth doing, there is a stage when no one would do it, except for necessity or honor.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonour, must have a proud and a powerful soul.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered:—and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”

― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“It is vain to recount further the catalogue of miseries. In earlier ages such horrors remain unknown because unrecorded. Just enough flickering light plays upon this infernal scene to give us the sense of its utter desolation and hopeless...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Would you like me to do it now? . . . Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“What I most loved after you, Mercedes, was myself, my dignity, and that strength which rendered me superior to other men; that strength was my life.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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