Category: Quotes

  • The Things They Carried Essays

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    The Things They Carried “The Things They Carried” displays men in the heart of war trying maintain some sort of semblance of their normal lives. The main character of the story, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, spends a good deal of his time thinking about his love interest back at home. In fact, the story opens…

  • Pride and Prejudice Quotes – Page 20 | Just Great DataBase

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    Sus recuerdos deben de estar tan limpios de todo reproche que la satisfacción que le producen no proviene de la filosofía, sino de algo mejor: de la tranquilidad de conciencia. Pride and Prejudice 0 I am particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so able to expose my real character, in a part of the…

  • Quotes – Page 110 | Just Great DataBase

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    A little more than kin, a little less than kind. William Shakespeare Hamlet 50 Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. William Shakespeare Hamlet 50 I do not cough for my own amusement. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 50 I…

  • 1984 Summary

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    In the history of the literature of the twentieth century, there are few novels as important as the book that George Orwell wrote. “1984” is an anti-utopia, telling about a society of the future, which lives under the yoke of totalitarian power. The Origins of the Novel The writer finished work on his main book…

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    I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland 1 On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before…

  • Quotes – Page 263 | Just Great DataBase

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    Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers.…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 128 | Just Great DataBase

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    You conjecture Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 But that expression of ‘violently in love’ is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour’s acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment. Pray, how violent was Mr. Bingley’s love?…

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    Just do your duty in silence. When in doubt, when flat on your back, you can look at the ceiling. Who knows what you may see, up there? Funeral wreaths and angels, constellations of dust, stellar or otherwise, the puzzles of spiders. There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 76 | Just Great DataBase

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    En cuanto a ella, era digna pareja en toda la extensión de la palabra. Si no es éste un gran elogio, decidme otro mejor, y lo emplearé. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 0 Try to think not; and ’twill seem better.’   ‘I’ve Charles Dickens Hard Times 0 the musketeers, and the musketeers fired on…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 74 | Just Great DataBase

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    A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in ever one of them encloses its…