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There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875)
It would be hard to say of any man that he is never right. If he is always thinking that he has forgotten a certain lady, surely he is right sometimes.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875)
"I'm like a good clock," said Crayshaw, "I neither gain nor lose. I can strike, too."
Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875)
Is it what we impart, or impute to nature from ourselves, that we chiefly lean upon? or does she truly impart of what is really in her to us?
Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875)
It seemed proper indeed to crowd the pages with children, for in real life they run all over; the world is covered thickly with the prints of their little footsteps, though, as a rule, books written for grown-up people are kept almost clear of them.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875)
The most joyous and gladsome natures are often most keenly alive to impressions of reverence, and wonder, and awe. Emily's mind longed and craved to annex itself to all things fervent, deep, and real. As she walked on the common grass, she thought the better of it because the feet of Christ had trodden it also.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875)
A thing that is very unexpected and moderately strange, we meet with wide-opened eyes, with a start and perhaps exclamations; but a thing more than strange, utterly unaccounted for, quite unreasonable, and the last thing one could have supposed possible as coming from the person who demanded it, is met in far quieter fashion.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875)