Mansimar Singh

“There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that however it may end there will always be people to say: "I said then that it would be so," quite forgetting that amid their innumerable conjectures many were to quite the contrary effect.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown,’ said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. ‘Yes sir, a clown,’ he said. ‘There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.’ ‘You got it backwards, Dill,’ said Jem. ‘Clowns are sad, it’s folks that laugh at them.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“This wounded man was Prince Andrew Bolkonski”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I have come, Countess, to ask for your daughter's hand," said Prince Andrew.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace