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“Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.”
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“A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.”
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“I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do'
Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.”
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Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.”
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“I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.”
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“It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for conviction. Now I am glad!' It was a little golden thread running through the dark web of his present fortunes; which were growing ever gloomier and more gloomy.”
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Raquel’s 2025 Year in Books
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