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“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》
“He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.”— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》
“With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》
“His mind relieved from inquietude respecting his Sister, and his Spirits raised by the hope of soon restoring her to freedom, He now had time to give a few moments to love and to Antonia.”— Matthew Gregory Lewis《The Monk》
“The old man had loved Undine with exceeding tenderness, and it was doubtful to his mind that the mere disappearance of his beloved child could be properly viewed as her death.”— Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué《Undine》
“The answer is, that we must do good to our seeming and real good friends, and evil to our seeming and real evil enemies--good to the good, evil to the evil.”— Plato《The Republic of Plato》
“You wrong me, wearied out with thought and grieving As though the whole world's sorrow eat my heart, I come to gaze upon your face believing Its beauty is as ointment to the smart.”— Adela Florence Nicolson《India's Love Lyrics》
“But nature itself, she thought, would be no better than a vast blank, if the mind of the observer did not supply it with an animating soul.”— William Godwin《Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman》
“The position, as it would appear to a plain person of ordinary common sense, is that a woman who is legally married to one man and is living as the wife of another, is a married woman who is living with a man who is not her husband.”— R. Austin Freeman《Helen Vardon's confession》
“Your mother thought that as you and I, in a short time, have become, so to say, friends, and you have some confidence in me, I am in a position to give you good advice—and you would mind what I say.”— Ivan Turgenev《The Torrents of Spring》
“DEAR DICK, At what time of life may a man think himself exempted from the necessity of sacrificing his repose to the punctilios of a contemptible world?”— Tobias Smollett《The Expedition of Humphry Clinker》
“It seems never to have entered the primitive mind of Vaughan to love, or serve, art and nature for themselves.”— Louise Imogen Guiney《A Little English Gallery》
“Say thou dost love me, love me, love me—toll The silver iterance!—only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence with thy soul.”— Elizabeth Barrett Browning《Sonnets from the Portuguese》
