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“...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
Emma • Jane Austen“Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.”
A New Crime • Mark Twain“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth.”
Great Expectations • Charles Dickens“It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”
Master Humphrey's Clock • Charles Dickens“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.”
What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us • Mark Twain