“Not the Bolter’s daughter?” I was quite accustomed to hearing my mother referred to as the Bolter, indeed nobody, not even her own sisters, ever called her anything else, so, when Lady Montdore paused with a disapproving look at the
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“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
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“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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