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"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."
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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction."
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"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."
"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects."
"She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct."
"A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away."
"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath."
"We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek."
"He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted."
"When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference."
"It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one."
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