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“Do anything, save to lie down and die!”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter