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“You may,” Tom Byrd corrected, entering with his hands full of grooming implements, “once I’ve put his lordship’s hair to rights.” He fixed Grey…

— Diana Gabaldon

“And there it was. The prim face of censure he’d been seeking. A strange sense of satisfaction descended on him. Divine justice, perhaps. Other…

— Tessa Dare

“With a perversity of judgement, which must be attributed to his not having by Nature a very strong head, the Graces, the Spirit, the…

— Jane Austen

“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.”

— Mary Shelley

“Sir Edward's great object in life was to be seductive. With such personal advantages as he knew himself to possess, and such talents as…

— Jane Austen

“They are ordinarily men to whom forms are of paramount importance. Their field of action lies among the external phenomena of life. They possess…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“An old autumn bench is no different than a king’s throne for the humble man!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“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

The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Unlike most boys, who considered their lousy luck the way the world worked, accepting it as a sheep accepts a shearing, Edward resented his…

— Steven Decker

“And where are the other gentry that were taken?—the real leaders of this plaguey rebellion. Grey’s case explains their absence, I think. They are…

— Rafael Sabatini

“A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character…

— Flann O'Brien