“If we was in town we’d have a fine funeral,” Augustus said. “But as you can see, we ain’t in town. There’s nothing you can do but kick your horse.”
“Yes, they were evil times, but in my long lifetime I have come to see that the times have always been evil, and the idyllic old days of nobility and virtue never really occurred, but are only the fantasies of poets and moralists.”
― The King's Gambit
― The King's Gambit
“Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“St. Swithun, the Anglo-Saxon bishop credited with numerous miracles, including the ability to restore broken eggs to wholeness, and of Saxon kings such as Eadwig, who, like Stephen, had ruled in war-torn times.”
― The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
― The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
“M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
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