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Whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the commonwea…

It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the stree…

These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroli…

But I must say what I feel and think in some way—it is such a relief!

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but tha…

The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest.

“I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”

His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

“What a quiet life it is the family lead”, said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, felt a great pride th…

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermi…

His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.

Lo! the Spear-Danes' glory through splendid achievements The folk-kings' former fame we have heard of, How princes disp…

So the carle that is young, by kindnesses rendered The friends of his father, with fees in abundance Must be able to ea…

By praise-worthy actions must honor be got 'Mong all of the races.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellec…

I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.

This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy clime…

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Curiouser and curiouser!

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!

The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.

In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

The ends justify the means.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

That man Smollett,” he said once, “is a better man than I am. And when I say that it means a deal, Jim.

Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

A tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat.

I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expressio…

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always _the_ woman.

It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.

No coward soul is mine.

A perfect misanthropist’s Heaven.

Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have e…

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to ev…

We learn from failure, not from success!

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.

Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!

Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing l…

A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg.

My soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.

To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Call me Ishmael.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul...

A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup.

The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth.

If you want to start one it is not so much that you need a good idea as that you need an idea that grows into a good on…