May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something."
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The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
"We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!"
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The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Nature takes no account of moral consequences.
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Women live much more in the past than we do, he thought. They attach themselves to places.
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell, and she had felt that was true of life--one scratched on the wall.
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
"What does the brain matter," said Lady Rosseter, getting up, "compared with the heart?"
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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