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Wilkie Collins

One of our first amusements as children (if we have any imagination at all) is to get out of our own characters, and to try the characters of other personages as a change—to be fairies, to be queens, to be … Continue reading

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Victor Hugo

The man who is not loved hovers like a vulture over the sweetheart of others. Discuss Quote of the Day

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. Discuss Quote of the Day

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William Shakespeare

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. Discuss Quote of the Day

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Leo Tolstoy

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Discuss Quote of the Day

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Edgar Allan Poe

Misery is manifold…as the rainbow; its hues are as various as the hues of that arch. Discuss Quote of the Day

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Henry David Thoreau

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth—certainly the machine will wear out. Discuss Quote of the Day

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve? Discuss Quote of the Day

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Robert Louis Stevenson

This simple accident of falling in love is as beneficial as it is astonishing. Discuss Quote of the Day

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

She might hate me, and revile me, and heap indignity after indignity upon me, as she already had, until I should have hated her; but the pitiful fact remained that I loved her. Discuss Quote of the Day

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