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“The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night.”

Book:The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens' 'The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit' is a satirical narrative that follows the fortunes of its protagonist, Martin Chuzzlewit, a man of peculiar habits and questionable morality. The story delves into themes of greed, social satire, and the complexities of human nature, set against the backdrop of early 19th-century England. more

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens, a British writer born on February 7, 1812, and died on June 9, 1870, is one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century. Known for his profound social criticism and vivid narrative style, Dickens' works extensively cover social reality, revealing various issues in the British society of the time. more

“The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!”

Ifs Mind Sky Wind Broken Citizens Lows Rounds Clouds Blow Flying Graves Weather Quarters Vengeance Thunder Confined Rushing Banging Chimneys Shutters Muttering Twirling

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.”

Children Self Loses Extremes Unhappy Very Happy Daydreaming Reverie

Author:Antoine Rivarol

“Venus favors the bold.”

Favors Boldness Venus Flirtation

Book:Ovid's Metamorphoses

Source: Ovid's Metamorphoses

“How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation?”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

“[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.”

Mind Use Exercise Diets

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.”

Mind Pain Harm Operations Dread Miscellaneous Vigorous Fallacy Detection

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.”

Book Lying Easy Chance Lucky Library Valuable Wit Shops Buried Quotations Spoil

Book:A Dictionary Of The English Language; In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals; And Illustrated In Their Different Significations, By Examples From The Best Writers: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar

Source: A Dictionary Of The English Language; In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals; And Illustrated In Their Different Significations, By Examples From The Best Writers: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar

“I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.”