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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
“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.”
― 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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“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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