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“The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.”

Reading Imagination History Perspective

Book:The Scarlet Pimpernel

Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon her with appalling force.”

Compassion Empathy Maturity Sympathy Discipleship

Book:The Scarlet Pimpernel

Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Your conscience troubles you unnecessarily, and you see a deliberate intention in every simple act.”

Series Diogenes Scarlet Pimpernel Laughing Cavalier

Author:Baroness Emma Orczy

“Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being he would find bliss and oblivion in her arms, he would soon repine in inactivity whilst others fought for that which he held sublime.”

Series Diogenes Scarlet Pimpernel Laughing Cavalier Baroness Orczy

Author:Baroness Emma Orczy