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It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIn context
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- Time
And to my mind, though I am native here,
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honour’d in the breach than the observance.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene IV, spoken by HamletIn context
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act IV, Scene V, spoken by OpheliaIn context
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter IIn context
Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter IIIn context
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest⁠—
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Treasure Island (1883), Part One: The Old Buccaneer, Chapter IIn context
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter IIn context
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter IXIn context
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- Life & Death
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but⁠—I hope⁠—into a better shape.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter LIXIn context
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- Experience
London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter IIn context
Call me Ishmael.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IIn context
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XIIIn context
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Mark Twain1835–1910The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Chapter VIn context
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In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IIIIn context
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