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“Besides, my dear sir, poverty cannot deprive us of intellectual delights. It cannot deprive you of the comfort of affording me examples of fortitude and benevolence; nor me of the delight of consoling a beloved parent. It cannot deaden our taste for the grand, and the beautiful, or deny us the means of indulging it; for the scenes of nature—those sublime spectacles, so infinitely superior to all artificial luxuries! are open for the enjoyment of the poor, as well as of the rich. Of what, then, have we to complain, so long as we are not in want of necessaries? Pleasures, such as wealth cannot buy, will still be ours. We retain, then, the sublime luxuries of nature, and lose only the frivolous ones of art.”
― 360 Planet, 50 Classic Gothic Works Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Black Cat, The Picture Of Dorian Gray...

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― 360 Planet, 50 Classic Gothic Works Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Black Cat, The Picture Of Dorian Gray...

“By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.”
― 360 Planet, 50 Classic Gothic Works Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Black Cat, The Picture Of Dorian Gray...