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“He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him.
~ Stephen speaking of Rachael”
― Hard Times
~ Stephen speaking of Rachael”
― Hard Times
“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
“The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
“She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
“There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
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