"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world."

Nothing, Sisters, Value, World

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"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world."

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"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."

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"If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it."

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"We can burst the bonds which chain us,Which cold human hands have wrought,And where none shall dare restrain usWe can meet again, in thought."

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"The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality."

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"Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still."

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"I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!"

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"I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution - such is not my taste. I wish to foster, not to blight - to earn gratitude, not to wring tears of blood - no, nor of brine: my harvest must be in smiles, in endearments, in sweet."

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"Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine."

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"If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend."

Perception, Women, Misunderstanding, Illusion, Judgment

"I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I concluded it would be a waste of labour. "Doubtless," though I, "she is some stiff old maid ; for though the daughter of Madame Reuter, she may well number upwards of forty winters; besides, if it were otherwise, if she be both young and pretty, I am not handsome, and no dressing can make me so, therefore I'll go as I am." And off I started, cursorily glancing sideways as I passed the toilet-table, surmounted by a looking-glass: a thin irregular face I saw, with sunk, dark eyes under a large, square forehead, complexion destitute of bloom or attraction; something young, but not youthful, no object to win a lady's love, no butt for the shafts of Cupid."

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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

George Eliot, British Author

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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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