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I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18...
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I only want enough to keep the body and soul apart.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.Source:...
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. More about this quote
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.Source: Daniel Deronda, bk....
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 17...
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?Source: Middlemarch, bk. 5, ch. 44,...
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look...
Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.Source: Felix Holt, Epilogue...
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but...
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.Source: Mansfield Park, Ch. 48-- Jane...
One half the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.Source: In...
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.Source: A Bolter and the...
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. More about this quote
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of...
The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of...
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English...
It was not . . . that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a...
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions...
There are many victories worse than a defeat.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
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