"I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise."
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
"Let the music speak to us of to-night, in a happier language than ours."
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Silence is safe.
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Any woman who is sure of her own wits is a match at any time for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.
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It by Stephen King
You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.
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It by Stephen King
Come on back and we'll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.
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It by Stephen King
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
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It by Stephen King
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