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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

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Austen, Jane, [published anonymously]. Sense and Sensibility. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1811, ch. 12.

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Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 12.

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 1.

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. George Allen & Unwin, 1954, ch. 2.

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All for one, one for all.

Alexandre Dumas

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The Three Musketeers

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Dumas, Alexandre. Les Trois Mousquetaires [The Three Musketeers]. Le Siecle, Mar. 1844 -July 1844. Serial.

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Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers, translated by Richard Pevear. Penguin, 2014, ch. 9.

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When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 6.

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Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 7.

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Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

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Hemingway, Ernest. "A Farewell to Arms." Scribner's Magazine, May 1929 - Oct. 1929, bk. 2, ch. 21.

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Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Scribners, 1995, bk. 2, ch. 21.

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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Thou art as a lion of the waters and as a dragon of the sea.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Quoting from Ezekiel 32:2.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 82.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 82.

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It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 12.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 12.

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 13 July 1861, issue 33, ch. 54.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 54.

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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

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Reader, I married him.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 3, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 38.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 38.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 30 Mar. 1861, issue 17, ch. 29.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 29.

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Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

Candide

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 30.

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Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 30.

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Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children

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Rushdie, Salman. "Perforated Sheet." Midnight's Children. Jonathan Cape, 1981, bk. 1.

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Begin at the beginning...and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan, 1865, ch. 12.

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Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Puffin Books, 2015, ch. 12.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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