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White called Prisonface to life in order that he should suffer, be punished, mocked, reduced to rags and die.

She was poised and sympathetic, like a girl who'd just come from the future but didn't want to brag about it.

He looked honored, extraordinarily honored, seeming to care for that which tore his flesh than he did for the flesh itself, embracing the blade as if it were some combination of marvel and disaster, the kind that usually either confers divinity or is a proof of it.

That inability to discover whether you jumped or were pushed brings about a deadened gaze and a downfall all it's own.

Daphne came in with her arms full of books, and her eyes blazing like two poisoned moons. "How'd you like the mess St. John?

I almost forgot to mention another fox I know of—a very wicked fox indeed. But you are tired of hearing about foxes now, so I won't go on.

How long had the Doc been crazy? I don't know. Quite some time, I guess. Don't worry. He was only a general practitioner.

He may have been told that a rakish grin works wonders. If so, he'd been getting bad advice.

Will you dare, I ask, to condemn the unfairness inherent in the judicial system which metes out one brand of justice for the rich and one for the poor?

Who else is there to marry?' she asked a friend; she at least had the great good fortune to be marrying for love.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating that it is more blessed to give than to receive

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

I had no genius, no mission to fulfill, no great heart to bestow. I had nothing and I deserved nothing. But all the same I desired some sort of reward.

Intelligence… is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

Henri Frédéric Amiel

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—they are the pillars of society.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.