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GK Chesterton's The Man Who Knew Too Much: "Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority."

“Modern intelligence won''t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.”

Wilkie Collins' The Woman In White: "My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes From The Underground: "To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

Rudyard Kipling's Bridge Builders: "Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."

"Never look backwards or you''ll fall down the stairs."

Charles Dickens? The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices: "I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

“I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.”

James Joyce's The Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: "You can still die when the sun is shining."

"You can still die when the sun is shining."

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Fatal Boots: "Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”

Jane Austen's Sense And Sensibility: "I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."

"I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."

Mary Wollstonecraft - Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome: "I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."

“I don''t know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”

Rudyard Kipling's Kim: "There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this."

"There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this."

Lyman Frank Baum - Rinkitink In Oz

Lyman Frank Baum - The Emerald City Of Oz

Lyman Frank Baum - The Enchanted Isle Of Yew

Lyman Frank Baum - The Lost Princess Of Oz

Lyman Frank Baum - The Marvelous Land Of Oz

Charles Dicken's On Detectives: "Vices are sometimes only virtures carried to excess!"

"Vices are sometimes only virtures carried to excess!"

Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage: "One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it."

"One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it."

Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone: "Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving

"Your tears come easy, when you''re young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you''re old, and leaving it."

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Essays: Insightful, masterful essays and musings on poetry, love, metaphysics and the future

The Memoirs Of Victor Hugo: "He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Poison Belt: "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

Charles Dickens' Hard Times: "Have a heart that never hardens and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

Charles Dicken's Pictures From Italy: "Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."

"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."

The Moorland Cottage By Elizabeth Gaskell

"The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it."

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy: "Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it."

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”

Jane Austen's Lady Susan: "Facts are such horrid things!"

"Facts are such horrid things!"

Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."

"Selfishness must always be forgive you know, because there is no hope of a cure."

Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey: "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."