June 2011
“The sound of Niagara Falls outdates our most cherished antiquities.”
—J.O. Urmson
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
—Edgar Allen Poe
“Brandon is just the kind of man whom everybody speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody cares to talk to.”
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Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
I feel like this quite often.
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
—Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Mariane was still handsomer. Her form, though not so correct a her sister’s; in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when, in the common cant of praise, she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.”
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Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Less violently outraged.”
