A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.


William Golding

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When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
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While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
JEFFREY ARCHER
There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus...
MILDRED D. TAYLOR
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS
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AND CITY
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Desperate Housewives.
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I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
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A stud is born! [Stanford]
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AND CITY
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You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY
I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
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Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY
Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND
We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND
None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR
Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.
GEORGE ORWELL
It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or...
JON COURTENAY GRIMWOOD
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
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I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS
He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS
I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
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A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW
A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA
Life is like a seesaw you can be up hi one minute then before you know it you can be down low the ne...
GARY F EVANS...
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
To stand on the
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE
why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe...
SHARIF MOHAMED
She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR
They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR
You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY
here we were again , always saying good-bye
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART
I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS
This commission is going to sit down and look at everything again and again and again. We really nee...
MARGARET GOODMAN
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the avera...
GEORGE ORWELL
Sun shines on my back as I walk away
Sun shines on my chest and I return
The fall air is c...
BRENT M. JONES
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
BEN OKRI
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL
they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
BILL VAUGHAN
And the roads called us to take the walk.
AVIJEET DAS
Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS
I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS
There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS
I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS
No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS
Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either.
JAIME CONTRERAS
I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderso...
DEBORAH KERR
He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS
I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS
Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY
Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR
It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS
oh.
she heard it
too-no waters
coursing, canyon
empty, sun
soundless- ...
BARBARA BLATNER
I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference...
BARBARA BLATNER
...gripping the
rim of the sink
you claw your
way to stand
and cling there, ...
BARBARA BLATNER
It's tough. We're just going to have to start over again and take it one step at a time. Go up there...
BRANDON DUBINSKY
Look, pick it up, open it anywhere and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you ...
DIANA GABALDON
too much morality, too little sense.
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
[talking about his new wife, Laura]
Angus the Groom: Ignore her. She's drunk. At least I hope s...
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
Fiona: Where's Gareth?
Matthew: Torturing Americans.
Fiona: How thoughtful of him.
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
Tom: The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you.
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
I always just hoped that, that I'd meet some nice friendly girl, like the look of her, hope the look...
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
THOUGHTS COME AND GO, WHAT CAN YOU CATCH AFTER ALL?
DEYTH BANGER
I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST
If a person gives nothing of what he has, either take nothing or take everything. If a person serves...
APURVA GAGLANI
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choos...
MARY PICKFORD
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choos...
MARY PICKFORD
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
GLASER AND WAY
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER
A man must be potent and orgasmic to ensure the future of the race.
A woman only needs to be avai...
MASTERS AND JOHNSON
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
GLASER AND WAY
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
LICHTY AND WAGNER
It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an e...
WATANABE AND AVAKIAN
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER
I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I
One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parame...
TROUBLE AND STRIFE
I sometimes think that I don't have a purpose in this world.
I am simply useless and wanderin...
GINGER AND ROSA
Patricia Compton, you are great at what you do and your beautiful spirit added so much to our specia...
REAH AND PAUL
The key to finding beauty is to know where to look.
SEIGFRIED AND ROY
That boy was going to make the world turn, and the stars would fall like rain.
TWIST AND SHOUT
For my 2015 Book Reading Challenge resolution, the 1 (one) book I want to read is titled: "Write, yo...
ROLF AND RANGER
A person who never made a mistake, never made anything." ~Rosamund Pilcher, Endings and Beginnings
ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS

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Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
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It's simpler to believe in a miracle.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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I want the truth of things. But there's nowhere to find it.
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You don't even care enough about us to hate us, do you?
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Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
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Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
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It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
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Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
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I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
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We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
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To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
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Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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No man is good enough to be another's master.
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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Give me love and work - these two only.
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'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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There is no darkness but ignorance.
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
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Though she be but little, she is fierce.
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What's done can't be undone.
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All love is lost but upon God alone.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
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God himself took this human flesh upon him.
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But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
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Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
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For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
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WILLIAM BARCLAY
A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
They say miracles are past.
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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
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I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
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Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH