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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of
absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness
within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.
Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and
doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone
of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
-- Shirley Jackson, "The Haunting of Hill House"
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| Linux Literature: 134 of 256 |
No violence, gentlemen -- no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
-- Sherlock Holmes
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| Linux Literature: 135 of 256 |
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles
as if she laid an asteroid.
-- Mark Twain
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| Linux Literature: 136 of 256 |
"Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none."
-- Shakespeare
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| Linux Literature: 137 of 256 |
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
-- Mark Twain
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| Linux Literature: 138 of 256 |
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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| Linux Literature: 139 of 256 |
O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
-- Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", II, 2
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| Linux Literature: 140 of 256 |
October 12, the Discovery.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss
it.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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| Linux Literature: 141 of 256 |
October.
This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in.
The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June,
December, August, and February.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
-- Shakespeare
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