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Apart from his dinners and his coursing, Mr Vincy, blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister: the force of circumstances was easily too much for him, as it is for most pleasure-loving florid men; and the circumstance called Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild persistence which, as we
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
“Mark my words, girls. There is no greater enemy of virtue than a charming Welshman.” Feeling Pandora’s elbow poking discreetly against her side, Helen reflected with chagrin that she could vouch for that.
Lisa Kleypas • Marrying Winterborne
"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
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Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre
Every day added strength to the triple bonds that united us. We gradually withdrew ourselves from the society of others, and found every moment irksome that was not devoted to each other.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
May draw the pliant King which way I please.
Christopher Marlowe • Edward II Revised (New Mermaids)
But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
I had mistaken the heroism of friendship for the phrenzy of love.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
“Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
-George Orwell