Category: Quotes

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 43 | Just Great DataBase

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    universally Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 4 May we take my uncle’s letter to read to her? Take whatever you like, and get away. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 4 There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: ‘Keep your breath to cool your porridge’; and I shall keep…

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    When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there’s nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man…

  • The Tempest Summary

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    In the opening scene of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, The King of Naples and his cohorts, along with the ships crewmen, struggle to remain afloat as the ship they are navigating is overtaken by a terrible storm. On land, the sorcerer Prospero, and his daughter, Miranda, look on as the storm blankets the vessel. The storm…

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    like a pathway through a forest, like a carpet for royalty, it shows me the way Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 3 I’ve always depended very heavily on the good opinion of others. Joseph Heller Catch-22 3 we developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that…

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    No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it. Kate…

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    God grant me the serentiy to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five 12 People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. I’ve finished my war book now. The next one I…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 89 | Just Great DataBase

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    On thee, the troubler of the poor world’s peace! The worm of conscience still be-gnaw thy soul! Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou liv’st, And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends! William Shakespeare Richard III 1 Прошу не торопить.Тот падает, кто мчится во всю прыть. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet 1 KING RICHARD…

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    Where are the men?” the little prince at last took up the conversation again. “It is a little lonely in the desert…””It is also lonely among men,” the snake said. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince 10 Dying, dying, Lolita Haze,Of hate and remorse I’m dying.And again my hairy fist I raise,And again I hear…

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    I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment 14 But you are a great sinner, that’s true,” he added almost solemnly, and your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment 14 But this was one way of knowing people,…

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    So why don’t you go home for vacations?’ I asked her.I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them. John Green Looking for Alaska 297 It’s silly not to hope. It’s a sin he thought. Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea 297 They walked on, without knowing in what direction.…