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“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― The Great Gatsby
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― The Great Gatsby
“Où sont les hommes?' reprit enfin le petit prince. 'On est un peu seul dans le désert.'
'On est seul aussi chez les hommes', dit le serpent.”
― The Little Prince
'On est seul aussi chez les hommes', dit le serpent.”
― The Little Prince
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“We never know we go,—when we are going
We jest and shut the door;
Fate following behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
We jest and shut the door;
Fate following behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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Victorians!
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Meggie & Mo's Booklist
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