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“The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras folded his arms and accepted his end, the din… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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I've got two older sisters, which I think was the best thing but also the worst thing. They dressed me up like… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job,… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
“Persephone said, “What an unpleasant young man.” Calla let the curtains drift shut. She remarked, “I got his license plate number.” “I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“[Funeral sermon, 02/08/1880] How is it with this young man here? Well, I wish it were otherwise; I wish he had lived… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
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“The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Colleague, given that I’m detached to go hunting bandits, I’d be grateful for the continued loan of your horses until we return.… — Anthony Riches Copy Share Image
Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I thought when I was a young man that I would conquer the world with truth. I thought I would lead an… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
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“on this evening i was thinking these wholesome but not original thoughts and feeling extraordinarily virtuous because i had worked well and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
“You have to remember, Kanai, she said at length, that as a young man Nirmal was in love with the idea of… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
“The drawing Anna was thinking of wasn't particularly wicked, not so far as drawings in Anover House went. It was a colored… — Alissa Johnson Copy Share Image
The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Tis alright. I'm not going to hurt ye. Ye're one of me kind, I wouldn't dare," he said. So he could sense… — Heather McCorkle Copy Share Image
“It's a long day, isn't it?' he said. 'Yes,' I replied. There are many such statements in factory conversation, to which the… — Peter Currell Brown Copy Share Image
“Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret society, not a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Sartre explained what he meant by the anguish of choice through the true story of a student who had come to ask… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My legs are dangling off the edge, The bottom of the bottle is my only friend, I think I'll slit my wrists… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
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“You’re as plain as the nose on your face,” said Mr. Pennyworth. “And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Having a boy play a girl (and when I say 'play a girl' I don't mean that he is represented as a… — Collier Schorr Copy Share Image
There are stories in the Bible about people telling other people how to do things. When you hear this young man say… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image