“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.”
- G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World
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“He could not help, even unconsciously, asking himself all the questions that there were to be asked, and answering as many of them as he could; all that went on like his breathing or circulation.”
- G.K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown
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“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
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“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla 🦇 🎩 🕯️
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“I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”
- John Buchan, The Thirty Nine Steps
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‘I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.’
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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All Serene - an ejaculation of acquiescence. Some years back a popular street cry. With or without application to actual fact, the words all serene were bawled from morning to night without any reference to the serenity of the unfortunate hearers.—See SERENE
- John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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‘In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta. There was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle cooing of pigeons in the tops of the elms.’
- A. A. Milne, The Red House Mystery
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“Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well.”
- Stendhal, The Red and the Black
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“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”
- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
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“I adore you, I hate you, I offend you, I ask your pardon, I admire you, I blush for my admiration: in a word, I have nothing of tranquillity or reason left about me.”
- Madame De La Fayette, The Princess of Cleves
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“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire.”
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol 🎩 🕯️ ❄️
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“Your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes that is the best help of all.”
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess ⭐ ❄️ 🎄
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“Beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.”
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
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“Sing, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned, aye, and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the sea, seeking to win his own life and the return of his comrades.”
- Homer, The Odyssey
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"Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”
- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles 🎄
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“Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed. Let us take it easy, and let us take it short; we shall be in the thick of the mystery soon, I promise you!”
- Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
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“My soul would sing of metamorphoses.
But since, o gods, you were the source of these
bodies becoming other bodies, breathe
your breath into my book of changes: may
the song I sing be seamless as its way
weaves from the world's beginning to our day.”
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
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“His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.”
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
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