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| "A startled or surprised look from one of you when I spoke sharply rebuked me more than any words could have done, and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy." | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |  |
| The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve. | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby |  |
| I go to Gascony, but my words stay here in your memory, and long after Etienne Gerard is forgotten a heart may be warmed or a spirit braced by some faint echo of the words that he has spoken. Gentlemen, an old soldier salutes you and bids you farewell. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventures of Gerard |  |
| I am . . . joined with eleven others in reporting the debates in Parliament for a Morning Newspaper. Night after night, I record predictions that never come to pass, professions that are never fulfilled, explanations that are only meant to mystify. I wallow in words. | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield |  |
| "And people laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?" | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables |  |
| " . . . we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words." | Anna Sewell | Black Beauty |  |
| . . . his gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it, in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered. | Charles Dickens | The Mystery of Edwin Drood |  |
| . . . he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. | Gilbert Parker | The Battle Of The Strong |  |
| . . . it is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. | George Eliot | Adam Bede |  |
| "Puns are the smallpox of the language." | George Meredith | The Adventures of Harry Richmond |  |