"He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections." Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Short cuts make delays, but inns make longer ones The Fellowship of the Ring
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
It is a great folly to lose the inner man in order to gain the outer, that is, to give up the whole or the greater part of one's quiet, leisure, and independence for splendour, rank, pomp, titles and honours. Parerga and Paralipomena
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