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Agnes Grey
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give. I can conceive few situations more harassing than that wherein, however you may long for success, however you may labour to fulfil your duty, your efforts are baffled and set at nought by those beneath you, and unjustly censured and
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“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“To love makes one solitary, she thought. She could tell nobody, not even Septimus now...”
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“Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing”
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“I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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