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“Now, me lord, you know you oughtn’t talk like that at this hour of the morning. Yougot to pardon his lordship, sir,” he said…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Is not a patron my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has…

— Samuel Johnson

“I have come upon the conviction that it is not the stern voice of a priest delivering the threat of brimstone, but the gentle…

— Hannah Kent

“But instead of this peace which I dared to expect, what anguish has weighed down my days! To become the perpetual plaything of fortune,…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

“Wyndham was a bore, in his humble opinion, but everything he did, every last decision and action - they were for others. It was…

— Julia Quinn

“I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction…

— Charles Dickens

“They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked…

— Charles Dickens

“Melville, in his relation to belief, was like the last guest who cannot leave the party; he was always returning to see if he…

— James Wood

“The Deoraghan celebrated anything that could be celebrated, because they never knew what tomorrow held. Caleb had never met any other people who categorically…

— Elizabeth C. Mock

“Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that…

— Harper Lee

“Both formality and dinner forgotten we sat on the floor of the little library, choosing. Sometimes Dr Portman read passages aloud and turned his…

— Janet Frame

“You must meet old Rowbotham, Bertie. A delightful chap. Wants to massacre the bourgeoisie, sack Park Lane and disembowel the hereditary aristocracy. Well, nothing…

— P.G. Wodehouse