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The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

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“Far away beyond the pine-woods,” he answered, in a low, dreamy voice, “there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All ...more

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“I regret many things I’ve done,” he said, “but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, ‘You are my master.’” He suddenly looked terribly sad.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

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“If you have some liniment I’ll put it on my dignity,”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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