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I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; Iâ€™ve a use for it.' 'And… — Charlotte Bronte
He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed… — Philip K. Dick
Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in. — Janeane Garofalo
When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had… — Jules Verne
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage… — Jonathan Edwards
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy… — Dale Carnegie
You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account. — Jennifer Weiner
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law — Douglas Hofstadter
The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement… — Josephine Tey
The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no… — Virginia Woolf
LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than… — William Shakespeare
Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them. — Charlaine Harris
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one… — Virginia Woolf
I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.) — A. S. Byatt
It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries… — Catherynne M. Valente
He smiles and takes his index finger and presses it to my lips, leaves it there until my heart lands on Jupiter: three seconds, then… — Jandy Nelson
We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one. — Loretta Chase
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. — Aldous Huxley
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the… — Julian Barnes
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. — Aldous Huxley

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