"We learn from failure, not from success!"
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
"For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin', and death be all that we can rightly depend on."
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
Despair has its own calms.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
"We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things."
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
"I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome."
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
"It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?"
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
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.
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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