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“Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no bad feeling, no malice, no rancour, no littleness in his ...”
“How can it be that Jane is with me, and says she loves me? Will she not depart as suddenly as she came? To-morrow, I fear I shall find her no more.”
“Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.”
“As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose voice it was- replied, 'I am coming: wait for me;' and a moment after, went whispering on the wind ...”
“Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly.”
“Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!”
“Do you like him much?'I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'Is he?'All boys are.”
“The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at las...”
“I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.”
“Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time as aromatic wine it seemed on swallowing warm and racy its after-flavor metallic and corroding gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.”
“Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.”
“. . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . .”
