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We called him Tortoise because he taught us
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IXIn context
“You’re nothing but a pack of cards!”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIIIn context
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The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIIIn context
- Health
It was a delightful visit;⁠—perfect, in being much too short.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIIIIn context
Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume II, Chapter VIIIIn context
“Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter IXIn context
- Time
He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter VIn context
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- Religion
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter XXIn context
It was a nice sickly season just at this time. In commercial phrase, coffins were looking up
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter VIIn context
“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper,” said Mr. Bumble. “So cry away.”
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book I: Miss Brooke, Chapter IIn context
I hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
Make yourselves scabs?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Coriolanus (c. 1608), Act I, Scene I, spoken by MartiusIn context
- Clever Jabs
Hear you this Triton of the minnows?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Coriolanus (c. 1608), Act III, Scene I, spoken by CoriolanusIn context
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My father named me Autolycus; who being, I as am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Winter’s Tale (c. 1611), Act IV, Scene III, spoken by AutolycusIn context