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"The fierce delight of a successful stroke of villany may for a time resemble happiness, but it is a resemblance as weak as that between the faint watery ray of a winter's sun and the full blaze of the god-like luminary in all the beauty of the vernal season."
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"the spirit that spoke of comfort, joy, and security to his heart and brain, was after all a false one."
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"The sunshine of the heart was not a thing to last long in such a bosom as Sweeney Todd's. His was not that sweet and lasting hilarity of soul that can alone arise from a deep and sincere consciousness of right."
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'"Mind though I am friends with you, I am still the uncompromising foe of all else in this place."'
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"'Food for fishes, if fishes can live in the Thames'"
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"'Viewing it in one way, my friends, it's a happy release, for she was a little touched in her intellect, poor thing,'"
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"Todd's eyes gleamed like two coals of fire, and Mrs. Lovett was as pale as death itself."
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"the strong eddying current that leaped and bubbled through the arch."
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"Todd's nature was of that mad implacable character, that anything in the shape of opposition only made a wish a passion."
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"'You who have sent so many from the world, will yourself go from it howling with fright.'"
— Sep 18, 2026 12:08PM
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"'I will speak trumpet-tongued, and if you like not that word murder, I will shriek it in your ears. If you like not the word blood, I will on the house-tops proclaim and tell the people that it is synonymous with Todd. Ha! ha! You shrink now."'
— Sep 18, 2026 12:02PM