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“He cut short my request for something to eat, snapping out, "I don't believe you want to work."
Now this was irrelevant. I hadn't said anything about work. The topic of conversation I had introduced was "food." In fact, I didn't want to work. I wanted to take the westbound overland that night.”
― Jack London, The Road

“We took up a collection and sent a telegram to the authorities of that town. The text of the message was that eighty-five healthy, hungry hoboes would arrive about noon and that it would be a good idea to have dinner ready for them.”
― Jack London, The Road

“Goo'-by, ole Bill, by-by. There you go, an' the signal o' distress roun' you, H. B. 'I'm in need of assistance.' Lord, here comes the sharks--look! look! look at um fight! look at um takin' ole Bill! I'm in need of assistance. I sh'd say you were, ole Bill.”
― Frank Norris, Moran Of The Lady Letty

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The same as a cigarette?" asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her.

"The same, but very, very gentle.”
― Sax Rohmer, Dope

“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“There is some pleasure in having no pleasure.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Tis an ancient and sacred tie that binds man to his nation; neither can it be severed without infamy.”
― James Fenimore Cooper

“You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart.
You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child's dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father ,from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear.
Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it. " My dear Louisa," said he, you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me, my dear girl.”
― charles Dickens, Hard Times

“somethingological”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“Come!’ said he, ‘I don’t want to be told about that.  I know what I took her for, as well as you do.  Never you mind what I took her for; that’s my look out.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“Who have we here? some amateur in fights! an inquisitive, wonder- seeking non-combatant, who has volunteered to serve his king, and perhaps draw a picture, or write a book, to serve himself! Pray, sir, in what capacity did you serve in this vessel?”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea

“Then said Joseph to St. Mary, Henceforth we will not allow him to go out of the house; for every one who displeases him is killed.”
― John Volz, Buried Books of the Bible

“There was also a large picture in a very handsome frame, done in coloured crayons. It looked like a religious subject. I was very much struck with the lace collar, it looked so real, but I unfortunately made the remark that there was something about the expression of the face that was not quite pleasing. It looked pinched. Mr. Finsworth sorrowfully replied: "Yes, the face was done after death--my wife's sister.”
― George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

“Yes, sir!” And Crevay, too, departed, filled with the energy that comes to every man when treated like a man and given a man’s work to do.”
― George Allan England, Cursed

“You're full of hashish! You been bothered lately with your head, Mr. Harris?”
― Frederick Ferdinand Moore, The Devil's Admiral

“If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, Homeward Bound: Or, the Chase, a Tale of the Sea. In Two Volumes. Vol. I

“Mr. Dodge, you have the high consolation of knowing that, throughout this trying occasion, you have conducted yourself in a way no other man of the party could have done.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, Homeward Bound

“Now Mr. Green was so completely a star of a confined orbit, that his ideas seldom described a tangent to their ordinary revolutions.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, Homeward Bound

“Philosophy is said to console a man under disappointment, although Shakespeare asserts that it is no remedy for a toothache; so Mr Easy turned philosopher, the very best profession a man can take up who is fit for nothing else.”
― Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy

“As your distress is occasioned by my company," said Eve, "it is fortunately in my power to relieve it.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, Home As Found: Sequel To Homeward Bound

“man only can be aware of the insensibility of man towards a new gown. It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet. Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“My first interviewer, my very first, photographed me. I told him that he was wasting a plate, but he went on and wasted three. Why did he do it? If I were a very beautiful woman I could understand it, though I think it would be a mistake to photograph Venus herself on the gangway of a steamer at eight o'clock in the morning in a downpour of rain.”
― James Owen Hannay, From Dublin to Chicago;

“A walking stick is no real use except to a lame man. The walker does not push himself along with it. He does not, when he sets out from home, expect to meet any one whom he wants to hit.”
― James Owen Hannay, From Dublin to Chicago;

“A very wise English lady, one who has much experience of life, once said that young Englishmen of good position are lured into marrying music hall dancers, a thing which occasionally happens to them, because they find these ladies more entertaining and exciting than girls of their own class. I do not know whether this is true or not, but if it is it helps to explain the attractiveness of American women. There is always a certain unexpectedness about them. They are always stimulating and agreeable. It is much more difficult to account for the attractiveness of the English man.”
― George A. Birmingham, From Dublin to Chicago; Some Notes on a Tour in America

“This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)”
― Benjamin Franklin

“In the conduct of my newspaper, I carefully excluded all libeling and personal abuse, which is of late years become so disgraceful to our country”
― Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“If I could, I would begin this book by telling you what Life is. But unfortunately I do not know what Life is. The only consolation I can find is in the fact that nobody else knows either.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Book of Life

“During another argument, Gene snapped at Peter: “Peter, you’re an illiterate idiot who can’t read or even talk correctly and never finished school.” “Yeah,” said Peter, “and I’m in the same band as you.” To this day, that remains the smartest thing I ever heard Peter say.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“The more opportunity I have to treat people the way I wished I myself had been treated, the better I feel.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed