How To Live On Twenty Four Hours A Day: "It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."Arnold Bennett
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A Word To The Wise
Books from 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 PurseHonore 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."G.K. Chesterton
- Kenilworth: "Look back, and smile on perils past."Sir Walter Scott
- The Mill on the Floss: "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."George Eliot
- The AlkahestHonore 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."G.K. 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."Sir 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."Sir Walter Scott
- The Bethrothed: "Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."Sir 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.”G.K. 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.'"G.K. 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 BohemiaHonore 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
- Dead Souls: “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”Nikolai Gogol
- Clocks: "We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of - but we never love again."Jerome K Jerome
- Topsy Turvy: "The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?"Jules Verne
- The Prisoner Of Zenda: “I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).”Anthony Hope
- The Fall Of The Moghul Empire Of HindustanH.G. Keene
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - The White People: “Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Angel Of Terror: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
- Alfred Lord Tennysons Drama, A Review: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
- Sketches Of Young Men: “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”Charles Dickens
- Under The Greenwood Tree: "If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we doomed to remain single we do."Thomas Hardy
- The Aspern Papers: “I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.”Henry James
- The Elixir Of LifeHonore De Balzac
- From The Earth To The Moon: “How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”Jules Verne
- An Ambitious Man: “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- The Mayor Of Casterbridge, By Thomas Hardy: "Some folks want their luck buttered."Thomas Hardy
- Mugby Junction: “Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.”Charles Dickens
- The Bird's Christmas Carol: “It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.”Kate Douglas Wiggin4
- Westward Ho!: "All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."Charles Kingsley
- The Fourth Plague: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace5
- Elizabeth Gaskell - Lizzie Leigh: “I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.”Elizabeth Gaskell
- Hunting SketchesAnthony Trollope
- The Railway ChildrenEdith Nesbit
- SummerEdith Wharton
- American Notes: "We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."Rudyard Kipling
- The Cricket On The Hearth: "We forge the chains we wear in life.”Charles Dickens
- Northanger Abbey: "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."Jane Austen
- The AvengerThomas De Quincey
- Coming HomeEdith Wharton
- My Antonia: “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”Willa Cather5
- The Profits of Religion: "The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived."Upton Sinclair
- The Well Beloved, By Thomas Hardy: "A man's silence is wonderful to listen to."Thomas Hardy
- The Lady & The Law: "Did you ever know a woman who could resist looking out of a window?"Wilkie Collins
- The Hidden MasterpieceHonore De Balzac1
- Letters Of Demonology & Witchcraft: "We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."Sir Walter Scott
- A Simple SoulGustave Flaubert
- Stage Land: "I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at is for hours."Jerome K Jerome
- An Inland Voyage: "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but playing a poor hand well."Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Wreck Of The Golden Mary: "It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."Charles Dickens
- Heart of Darkness: "We live as we dream…alone…"Joseph Conrad
- The Death Of A Lion: “Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live”Henry James
- Amy Foster: "A man's most open actions have a secret side to them."Joseph Conrad
- An International Episode: “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”Henry James
- The Talisman: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”Sir Walter Scott
- The Octopus ( A California Story)Frank Norris
- The Evil Genius: "In one respect, men are all alike; they hate to see a woman in tears."Wilkie Collins
- Two On A Tower, By Thomas Hardy: "But time is short, and science is infinite…"Thomas Hardy
- A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court - "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus": "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."Mark Twain
- An Antatctic Mystery aka The Sphinx of the Ice Fields: The Sphinx Of The IcefieldsJules Verne
- The Death Of Ivan Ilych - "He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace": "He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace."Leo Tolstoy4
- The Woodlanders, By Thomas Hardy: "The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."Thomas Hardy
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