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1. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."
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2. "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time."
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3. "Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock."
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4. "What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"
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5. "I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."
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6. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in good fortune must be in want of a wife."
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7. "That's the whole trouble. You can't even find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any."
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8. "There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better."
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9. "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
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10. "Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one."
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11. ''The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.''
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12. "There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
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13. "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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14. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary"
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15. "I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing."
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16. "Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot."
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17. "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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18. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
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19. "Terror made me cruel."
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20. "What are men to rocks and mountains?"
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21. "Happiness [is] only real when shared."
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22. "I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me."
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23. "Now is the winter of our discontent."
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24. "All for one and one for all."
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25. "Please, sir, I want some more."
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26. "Call me Ishmael."
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27. "Abandon hope all ye who enter here."
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28. "On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A."
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29. "The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."
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30. "Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."
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31. "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear"
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32. "As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn’t much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra."
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33. "When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing."
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34. "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning."
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35. "They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate."
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36. "But I remembered one thing: it wasn’t me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all."
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37. "Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else."
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38. "I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold."
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39. "Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."
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40. "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
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41. "To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
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42. "Ask no questions and you’ll be told no lies."
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43. "We can't stop here, this is bat country!"
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44. "Is evil something you are, or something you do?"
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45. "So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
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46. "What am I doing here in this endless winter?"
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47. "It is not down in any map; true places never are."
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48. "And the rest is rust and stardust."
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49. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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50. "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."
What’s your favorite quote from a novel? C’mon, you know you have one; the quote that has become your mantra, your life view, or the motto with which you face the world. Or maybe there’s a quote that always makes you laugh. Read more