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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

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I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but becaus...more

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(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm that has enabled hi...more

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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

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I hate the twaddle talk of love, whether it's about myself or about any one else. It makes me feel ashamed of my sex, when I find out that I cannot ta...more

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The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so ...more

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There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been.