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A Word To The Wise
A Word To The Wise
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- Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: "You can still die when the sun is shining."James Joyce
- Ulysses: "Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."James Joyce
- The Riddle Of The Sands: "It seems perfectly simple and inevitable, like lying down after a long day's work."Erskine Childers
- Bridge Builders: "Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."Rudyard Kipling
- The TouchstoneEdith Wharton
- Pride And Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."Jane Austen
- Told After Supper: "It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar."Jerome K. Jerome
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Lady Of Quality: “She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Poison Belt: "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."Arthur Conan Doyle
- The PurseHonoré de Balzac
- John Bull On The GuadalquivirAnthony Trollope
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: “We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”Jules Verne4
- A Personal Record: "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."Joseph Conrad
- Tremendous Trifles: "Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before."Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Kenilworth: "Look back, and smile on perils past."Walter Scott
- The Mill on the Floss: "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."George Eliot
- The AlkahestHonoré de Balzac
- To Be Read At Dusk: "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."Charles Dickens
- Jude The Obscure, By Thomas Hardy: "Every successful man is more or less a selfish man."Thomas Hardy
- Lady Susan: "Facts are such horrid things!"Jane Austen
- Heretics: "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Desperate Remedies, By Thomas Hardy: "The beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit."Thomas Hardy
- Allain QuartermainH. Rider Haggard1
- Return Of The Native, By Thomas Hardy: "Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?"Thomas Hardy
- The Lady Of The Lake: "Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."Walter Scott3
- The Christmas Books Of Mr M A TitmarshWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
- The Yellow Wallpaper: “Through literature we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.”Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Four Just Men: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
- The Spirit Of Japan: "I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my intrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."Rabindranath Tagore
- The Limitations Of Dickens & Other Essays: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
- The Bride Of Lammermoor: "When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."Walter Scott
- The Bethrothed: "Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."Walter Scott
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden: “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Napolean Of Notting Hill: “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- The Rubaiyat: "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."Omar Khayyam
- Mal Moulee: “A poor original is better than a good imitation.”Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Beyond Good and Evil: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Novels Of George Eliot, A Review: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
- The Defendant: "'My country, right or wrong,' us a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- The King In Yellow: “There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life.”Robert W. Chambers
- A Prince Of BohemiaHonoré de Balzac
- Confessions Of An Inquirer: "Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Dawn Of A Tomorrow: "She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind."Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe: “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Wild Thyme In IbizaStewart Andersen
- Lorna Doone: "….because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?"R.D. Blackmore
- Nationalism: "It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple."Rabindranath Tagore
- Elizabeth Gaskell - An Accursed Race: "A man is so in the way in the house."Elizabeth Gaskell
- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Stories Of The Supernatural: Victorian era supernatural collection from one of the eras most prominent supernatural women authorsMary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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