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“She looks very virtuous and very melancholy."
"Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
"Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
“Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.”
― Asfixia
― Asfixia
“And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly”
― The Story of Ferdinand
― The Story of Ferdinand
“When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.”
― Nicholas Nickleby
― Nicholas Nickleby
“The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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