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Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
like a Saracen’s Head in a Dutch clock,
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
fecklessness
Gilbert Adair • Love and Death on Long Island: A Novel
De Mulieribus Claris
The largest crowds are drawn by the storytellers. It is around them that the people throng most densely and stay longest... their words come from further off and hang longer in the air than those of ordinary people.
Morgan Housel • How People Think
MIR. Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
William Shakespeare • The Tempest (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)
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
... See moreSusie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
proved himself in all respects a worthy minister at the sacred altar of friendship.’
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
The abbess, who was the daughter of a noble house, took particular delight in stories of the court, which so seldom travel to the extremities of the kingdom, and which, above all, have so much difficulty in penetrating the walls of convents, at whose threshold the noise of the world dies away.