“The fear of death is an animal passion which must be overcome." Seagull
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection. Reflections on Literature and Morality
A word in earnest is as good as a speech. Bleak House
Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceive of doing it. And the simple way she lived—not in the least like the rich. Book I
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