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“His laugh had not quite left him either, but it was like the echo of a joyful sound, and that is always sorrowful.”
― Bleak House
― Bleak House
“As an immensely imaginative novelist, not as a philosopher writing a coherent essay, Cervantes embodied in his characters and narrators the most diverse thoughts and actions. So a given passage may present a particular viewpoint, which Cervantes may or may not have shared at one time or under certain circumstances, while the next passage may present another viewpoint, which, again, he may or may not have shared at one time or under certain circumstances. But what all of Cervantes's pages indubitably prove is that he understood many things; and that he could therefore envisage, even more than his ingenioso Don Quijote, many different ways of thinking and acting. So it is with libertarianism.”
― Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture
― Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture
“Just so,” said Mr. Vholes. So slow, so eager, so bloodless and gaunt, I felt as if Richard were wasting away beneath the eyes of this adviser and there were something of the vampire in him.”
― Bleak House
― Bleak House
“but hearing him say just now “codicil to your will that cannot be provoked,” instead of “codicil to your will that cannot be revoked,” he came to believe everything that he’d read about him, and he deemed him one of the most celebrated idiots of our times, and he said to himself that two such crazy men as this master and servant had never been seen before in the world.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“But once again I tell you to do whatever you want, because we women are born with this burden of being obedient to our husbands, even though they’re blockheads.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
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