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Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay, but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.
Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable," was his mildly cadaverous reply.
Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
"I would prefer not to." (A line spoken repeatedly by Bartleby)
Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
And here Bartleby makes his home, sole spectator of a solitude which he has seen all populous — a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage!
Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)