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“The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.”

Book:The Plain Speaker: The Key Essays

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The Plain Speaker: The Key Essays

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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt, born on April 10, 1778, was an influential English essayist and literary critic. His works are renowned for their sharp observations and profound insights, which have had a lasting impact on 19th-century British literature. more

“I summon it, and it returns to me, a slightly coarse, dusty, but strong and pleasant smell, reminescent of touching rough sackcloth, and its borders on the memory of the feel of his skin, his flowing locks, his thick mustache that rubbed against the skin of my cheek and gave me a pleasant feeling, like being in a warm, dark old kitchen on a winter day. p.34”

Tale Of Love And Darkness

Author:Oz, Amos

“The smell of my uncle's enormous library would accompany me all the days of my life: the dusty, enticing odor of seven hidden wisdoms, the smell of a silent, secluded life devoted to scholarship, the life of a secretive hermit, the severe silence of ghost billowing up from the deepest wells of knowledge, the whisper of dead sages, outpouring of secret thoughts of long-buried authors, the cold caress of the desires of preceding generations. p.47-48”

Tale Of Love And Darkness

Author:Oz, Amos

“We're gonna be the best ferret daddies!”

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Book:Not Like Other Boys

Source: Not Like Other Boys

“[S]he takes a killer. Sometimes she takes two, never more than two, because some things are good for us but too much is suddenly bad.”

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Book:Room

Source: Room

“It is sometimes dangerous to have too much merit.”

Too Much Of A Good Thing

Book:The Love Letters Of Abelard And Heloise: Translated From The Original Latin And Now Reprinted From The Edition Of 1722: Together With A Brief Account Of Their Lives And Work By Ralph Seymour

Source: The Love Letters Of Abelard And Heloise: Translated From The Original Latin And Now Reprinted From The Edition Of 1722: Together With A Brief Account Of Their Lives And Work By Ralph Seymour

“For Tom, she was a bit like the dishes at the food joint next door: huge plates full of flavour and tasting them, you would start hungering for more, but too much of them would affect your stomach. It can't really cope if you get them more often than once a month. ~ As the moon began to rust”

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Author:Sima B. Moussavian

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