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“There’s another military virtue for you, Flim: never throw away allies until you’re absolutely sure you won’t need them anymore.”
“You are right; you know men better than I do, and what you say may possibly be the case, I confess; but if such persons are among my acquaintances I prefer not to know it, because then I should be forced to hate them”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Me? Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory—don’t you think so, Miss Taggart?” “No,” said Dagny, “I don’t.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“Yes; but one gets out of prison," said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, "and when one gets out and one's name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Walt Whitman, who ardently followed the Overland Campaign: “When did [Grant] ever turn back? He was not that sort; he could no more turn back than time! . . . Grant was one of the inevitables; he always arrived; he was invincible as a law: he never bragged—often seemed about to be defeated when he was in fact on the eve of a tremendous victory”
― Grant
― Grant
“A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have wished to be born of her if she had been in existence when he was made man!”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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