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"Haste! haste!" said Felton; "do you not see that each of your words burns me like molten lead?"
Alexandre Dumas • The Three Musketeers
Milady let one of those looks fall upon him which make a slave of a king.
Alexandre Dumas • The Three Musketeers
they direct all their attention to the letter, seeming inclined to infringe the rules of common sense and of humanity rather than to swerve one title from the law.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Milady was handsome enough not to find much resistance on the part of the flesh, and she was sufficiently skillful to prevail over all the obstacles of the mind.
Alexandre Dumas • The Three Musketeers
“Young women only die of broken hearts in novels, Charles. She died of scarlet fever.”
Amor Towles • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

"Capital! Adieu, Chevalier." "Adieu, Countess."
Alexandre Dumas • The Three Musketeers
Among the young men their friends and neighbours, the belle jeunesse of the Colony, there were many excellent fellows, several devoted swains, and some two or three who enjoyed the reputation of universal charmers and conquerors. But the home-bred arts and the somewhat boisterous gallantry of those honest young colonists were completely eclipsed by
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Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin."