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"...suffering has been stronger than all other teaching...I have been bent and broken,  but--I hope--into a better shape." ...

"...he had no notion of meeting danger half-way. When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he troubled himself....

"The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death." ...

"All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing....

"I had little objection to his being seen by Herbert or his father, for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitive...

In Great Expectations , young Pip's world is suddenly flipped upside down upon meeting the beautiful, unattainable Estella at Miss Havi...

"It was not because I was faithful, but because Joe was faithful, that I never ran away and went for a soldier or a sailor. It was not...

Hello there! I've checked another book off my 2016 reading list , and now it's time to talk about it. After I bought a plane tick...

"Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than di...

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I w...