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Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through...
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death
cabin
harriet
stowe
tom
uncle
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
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love
gatsby
funny-quotes
tom
sarcasm
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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621b92e
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I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.
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tom
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Joseph Delaney |
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Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.
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love
nora-roberts
tom
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Nora Roberts |
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b63b03a
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"I understand we'll be attending your friend Miss Worthington's Christmas ball. Perhaps I'll find a suitable-- which is to say wealthy-- wife among the ladies attending." And perhaps they will run screaming for the convent."
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funny
humor
gemma
doyle
tom
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Libba Bray |
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cd35ee4
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O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs. -Augustine St. Clare
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cabin
harriet
stowe
tom
uncle
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |