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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

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“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest-- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet”

“I can talk a little shark language and porpoise dialect myself.”

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will”

“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

“There is no place like home.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“Might I,” quavered Mary, “might I have a bit of earth?”

“Till this moment, I never knew myself.”

“Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!”

“Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”

“Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.”

“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”

“He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken.”

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy.”

“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”

“Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.”

“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.”

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

“Parting is such sweet sorrow”

“There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.”

“From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.”

“We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t.”

“I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead.”

“Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.”

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.”

“Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time.”

“It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars”

“I like good strong words that mean something”

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.”

“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.”

“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”

“What’s happened to me?” he thought. It wasn’t a dream.

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”