"You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been."
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose.
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
"Alas, poor Yorick!--I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it."
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
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