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"Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life; to all its cares for the present; its anxieties for the future; more than all, its weary recollections of the past!"
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"In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay."
"It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story."
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"Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go."
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"My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse."
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"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."
"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."
"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
"Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'."
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