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Women who are (beyond all doubt) the mothers of all mischief, also nurse that babe to sleep, when he is too noisy.
Lorna Doone (1869)
Too late we know the good from bad; the knowledge is no pleasure then; being memory's medicine rather than the wine of hope.
Lorna Doone (1869)
It is the manner of all good boys to be careless of apparel, and take no pride in adornment.
Lorna Doone (1869)
“Now let us bandy words no more,” said mother, very sweetly; “nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.”
Lorna Doone (1869)
The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.
Lorna Doone (1869)
Because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?
Lorna Doone (1869)
There is nothing in this world to fear, nothing to revere or trust, nothing even to hope for; least of all, is there aught to love.
Lorna Doone (1869)
Either love me not at all, or as I love you for ever.
Lorna Doone (1869)
The love of all things was upon me, and a softness to them all, and a sense of having something even such as they had.
Lorna Doone (1869)
Least said soonest mended, because less chance of breaking.
Lorna Doone (1869)
It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.
Lorna Doone (1869)
But whatever lives or dies, business must be attended to; and the principal business of good Christians is, beyond all controversy, to fight with one another.
Lorna Doone (1869)
May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.
Lorna Doone (1869)
If I cared for influence—which means, for the most part, making people do one's will, without knowing it—my first step toward it would be to be called, in common parlance, “slow but sure.”
Lorna Doone (1869)
Often too I wonder at the odds of fortune, which made me (helpless as I am, and fond of peace and reading) the heiress of this mad domain, the sanctuary of unholiness.
Lorna Doone (1869)
I for my part was nothing loth, and preferred to see London by daylight.
And after all, it was not worth seeing, but a very hideous and dirty place, not at all like Exmoor.
Lorna Doone (1869)
But a sigh is not (like a yawn) infectious; and we are all more prone to be sent to sleep than to sorrow by one another. Not but what a sigh sometimes may make us think of sighing.
Lorna Doone (1869)
I delay so long, because I fear; because my whole life hangs in balance on a single word; because what I have near me now may never more be near me after, though more than all the world, or than a thousand worlds, to me.
Lorna Doone (1869)
Having no knowledge of these great men, nor of the matter how far it was true, I had not very much to say about either of them or it; but this silence was not shared (although the ignorance may have been) by the hundreds of people around me.
Lorna Doone (1869)
Soon we found Peggy and Smiler in company, well embarked on the homeward road, and victualling where the grass was good. Right glad they were to see us again—not for the pleasure of carrying, but because a horse (like a woman) lacks, and is better without, self-reliance.
Lorna Doone (1869)