He didn't at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it -- nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes. Bleak House
It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself. Book VII
“I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner.” Republic
"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read. Following the Equator
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