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. . . for gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal . . .
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. . . for the stress of circumstances, Fred felt, was sharpening his acuteness and endowing him with all the constructive power of suspicion.
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. . . from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
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. . . from politics, it was an easy step to silence.
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. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was–a woman.
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. . . hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
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. . . he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
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. . . his designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
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. . . however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
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. . . human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
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. . . I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE.
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. . . I lived on rum, I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me . . . .
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. . . if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them . . .
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. . . ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
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. . . impropriety is the soul of wit . . .
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. . . it hath been often said that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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. . . it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind.
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. . . love is a great beautifier.
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. . . Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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. . . Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty’s works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers. I wish we could be brought to consider this, and remembering natural obligations a little more at the right time, talk about them a little less at the wrong one.
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