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Whenever I have a few moments to pause from my duties, I turn to face the Temple, and I breathe the Holy Name—I breathe it because it is unlawful to speak it aloud. Then, for an instant, I am within the innermost place where the Name
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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.”
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Should certain persons die before they sing.”
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“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“Looking back upon the year's accumulated heap of troubles, Margaret wondered how they had been borne. If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day by day had, of itself, and by itself, been very endurable--small, keen, bright little spots of positive enjoyment having come sparkling into the very middle of sorrows.”
― North and South
― North and South
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