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“Min Fader havde det Held efter en meget tarvelig Undervisning at blive antaget som Skriverdreng hos Stiftamtmanden. Denne, W. J. A. Moltke, der senere fik Grevetitel, fik den kjønne og raske Dreng kjær, og da han 1815 blev forflyttet til Sjælland, tog han ham med sig, og antog det unge Menneske, der imidlertid havde naaet at faa Dansk juridisk Examen, som sin Fuldmægtig.”
― Johan Louis Ussing, Af mit Levned

“Things went downhill pretty fast after that. Although every action and reaction felt like slow motion from Krista’s perspective, the entire debacle probably took seconds.”
― Debra Salonen, Montana Secret Santa

“I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret—”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“knew he was going to die. And since he had only hours—or minutes—to live, he wanted to spend those last moments happy. Well, as happy as you could be surrounded by zombies. But he was happy, which was mind-boggling, especially when you considered that he’d spent more than half of his life unhappy. He’d spent the last eighteen of his thirty years miserable, in fact,”
― Sarah Lyons Fleming, So Long, Lollipops