85 Quotes About Victorian-era
- Author George Gissing
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The sum of their faults was their inability to earn money; but, indeed, that inability does not call for unmingled disdain.
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- Author George Gissing
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Well, Maud made a mistake, let us say. Dolomore is a clown, and now she knows it.
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- Author Cassandra Krivy Hirsch
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Father has taught me that when something is lost, whether dear or not, giving up the search is sometimes best and often enough the lost article finds its owner.
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- Author Louis Bayard
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I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.
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- Author Matthew Arnold
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Up the still, glistening beaches,Up the creeks we will hie,Over banks of bright seaweedThe ebb-tide leaves dry.We will gaze, from the sand-hills,At the white, sleeping town;At the church on the hill-side—And then come back down.Singing: "There dwells a loved one,But cruel is she!She left lonely for everThe kings of the sea.(from poem 'The Forsaken Merman')
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- Author T.G. Campbell
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I am no stranger to danger,” Mr Locke pointed out. “Besides, if I should die, I shall take full responsibility.
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- Author T.G. Campbell
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I was attempting to take the gun,” Mr Locke stated, “in the hope it would prevent it from firing.”“Take it from me, Mr Locke, that don’t work,” Mr Skinner said as he lifted his iron hand.
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- Author George Gissing
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I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society"."If society were really decent, he would have been
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- Author Mary Allsebrook
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The gallant captain vacated his cabin for her, and Manna changed her role from cook to chaperone. All most correct. But it was hardly the done thing to cadge a lift on a torpedo boat. Yet she did it twice in a lifetime.
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