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Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
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| H. G. Wells | The Invisible Man |
Everyone seemed eager to talk at once, and the result was Babel.
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| H. G. Wells | The Invisible Man |
In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.
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| H. G. Wells | The Invisible Man |
The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
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| H. G. Wells | The Invisible Man |
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
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| H. G. Wells | The Invisible Man |
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
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| H. G. Wells | The Invisible Man |
It was a beautiful summer afternoon, at that delicious period of the year when summer has just burst forth from the growth of spring; when the summer is yet but three days old, and all the various shades of green which nature can put forth are still in their unsoiled purity of freshness.
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| Anthony Trollope | Framley Parsonage |
When a man gets into his head an idea that the public voice calls for him, it is astonishing how great becomes his trust in the wisdom of the public.
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| Anthony Trollope | Framley Parsonage |
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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| Anthony Trollope | Framley Parsonage |
It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.
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| Anthony Trollope | Framley Parsonage |
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