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| A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. | Herman Melville | Moby Dick |  |
| Out of natural courtesy he received, but did not appropriate. It was like a gift placed in the palm of an outreached hand upon which the fingers do not close. | Herman Melville | Billy Budd | |
| "Is there no difference," asked Helena, with a little faltering in her manner; "between submission to a generous spirit, and submission to a base or trivial one?" | Charles Dickens | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | |
| "The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain. " | Charles Dickens | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | |
| "Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me." | William Shakespeare | Henry IV, Part One | |
| "It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it." | Anthony Trollope | The Last Chronicle of Barset | |
| Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | |
| "Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise." | Jane Austen | Emma | |
| The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | |
| He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused. | Jack London | The Call of the Wild | |
| "It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? " | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | |
| " . . . your words and performances are no kin together." | William Shakespeare | Othello | |
| Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights. | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | |
| "No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know." | Sophocles | Oedipus Rex | |
| I saw, I imitated, I survived! | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | |
