Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open? Northanger Abbey
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. Book IV
To seek what is impossible is madness: and it is impossible that the bad should not do something of this kind. Book V
The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. Following the Equator
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