"A truly refined mind will seem to be ignorant of the existence of anything that is not perfectly proper, placid, and pleasant."
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Little Dorrit
by
Charles Dickens
"She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful."
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Little Dorrit
by
Charles Dickens
The Rector of Worsted Skeynes was not tall, and his head had been rendered somewhat bald by thought.
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The Country House
by
John Galsworthy
"Mrs. Lynde says that sound doctrine in the man and good housekeeping in the woman make an ideal combination for a minister's family."
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Anne of Green Gables
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is."
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Anne of Green Gables
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction!"
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The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"It's grand, and you canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable."
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The Little Minister
by
James M. Barrie
"I don't deny that an odd man here and there, if he's caught young and trained up proper, and if his mother has spanked him well beforehand, may turn out a decent being."
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Anne's House of Dreams
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned . . ."
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David Copperfield
by
Charles Dickens
"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."
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David Copperfield
by
Charles Dickens