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"Is not the world sad enough, in genuine earnest, without making a pastime of mock-sorrows?" (p. 146)

"[...] when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offences, but never resentful of great ones." (p. 113)

"Individuals, whose affairs have reached an utterly desperate crisis, almost invariably keep themselves alive with hopes, so much the more airily magnificent, as they have the less of solid matter within their grasp, whereof to mould any judicious and moderate expectation of good." (p. 64)

"Doubtless, God did forgive her. But, taking the inward and outward history of the first half-day into consideration, Hepzibah began to fear that the shop would prove her ruin, in a moral and religious point of view, without contributing very essentially towards even her temporal welfare." (p. 55)

"How can we elevate our history of retribution, when, as one of our most prominent figures, we are compelled to introduce -not a young and lovely woman, nor even the stately remains of beauty, storm-shattered by affliction- but a gaunt, sallow, rusty-jointed maiden, in a long-waisted silk-gown, and with the strange horror of a turban on her head!" (p. 41)