“Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease!”
― Nicholas Nickleby
― Nicholas Nickleby
“A well-used minimum suffices for everything.”
― Around the World in Eighty Days
― Around the World in Eighty Days
“I spend all my time thinking things through. It’s acting on my thoughts that gets tricky. Which ones should I act on, and which ones should I ignore?”
― Children of the Mind
― Children of the Mind
“You don't suppose this kind of thing is ever finished, do you? Tomorrow it'll be something else-and another fella will have to stand up. And you've helped give him the guts to do it!”
― Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
― Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
“Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither.”
― Anne of Avonlea
― Anne of Avonlea
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