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A Word To The Wise
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- Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: "You can still die when the sun is shining."James Joyce
- Ulysses: "Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."James Joyce
- The Riddle Of The Sands: "It seems perfectly simple and inevitable, like lying down after a long day's work."Erskine Childers
- Bridge Builders: "Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."Rudyard Kipling
- The TouchstoneEdith Wharton
- Pride And Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."Jane Austen
- Told After Supper: "It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar."Jerome K Jerome
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Lady Of Quality: “She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Poison Belt: "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."Arthur Conan Doyle
- The PurseHonore De Balzac
- John Bull On The GuadalquivirAnthony Trollope
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: “We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”Jules Verne
- A Personal Record: "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."Joseph Conrad
- Tremendous Trifles: "Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before."G.K. Chesterton
- Kenilworth: "Look back, and smile on perils past."Sir Walter Scott
- The Mill on the Floss: "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."George Eliot
- The AlkahestHonore De Balzac
- To Be Read At Dusk: "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."Charles Dickens
- Jude The Obscure, By Thomas Hardy: "Every successful man is more or less a selfish man."Thomas Hardy
- Lady Susan: "Facts are such horrid things!"Jane Austen
- Heretics: "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."G.K. Chesterton
- Desperate Remedies, By Thomas Hardy: "The beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit."Thomas Hardy
- Allain QuartermainH Rider Haggard
- Return Of The Native, By Thomas Hardy: "Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?"Thomas Hardy
- The Lady Of The Lake: "Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."Sir Walter Scott
- The Christmas Books Of Mr M A TitmarshWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
- The Yellow Wallpaper: “Through literature we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.”Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Four Just Men: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
- The Spirit Of Japan: "I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my intrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."Rabindranath Tagore
- The Limitations Of Dickens & Other Essays: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
- The Bride Of Lammermoor: "When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."Sir Walter Scott
- The Bethrothed: "Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."Sir Walter Scott
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden: “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Napolean Of Notting Hill: “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”G.K. Chesterton
- The Rubaiyat: "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."Omar Khayyam
- Mal Moulee: “A poor original is better than a good imitation.”Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Beyond Good and Evil: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Novels Of George Eliot, A Review: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
- The Defendant: "'My country, right or wrong,' us a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"G.K. Chesterton
- The King In Yellow: “There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life.”Robert W. Chambers
- A Prince Of BohemiaHonore De Balzac
- Confessions Of An Inquirer: "Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Dawn Of A Tomorrow: "She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind."Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe: “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Wild Thyme In IbizaStewart Andersen
- Lorna Doone: "….because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?"R.D. Blackmore
- Nationalism: "It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple."Rabindranath Tagore
- Elizabeth Gaskell - An Accursed Race: "A man is so in the way in the house."Elizabeth Gaskell
- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Stories Of The Supernatural: Victorian era supernatural collection from one of the eras most prominent supernatural women authorsMary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
- Dead Souls: “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”Nikolai Gogol
- Clocks: "We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of - but we never love again."Jerome K Jerome
- Topsy Turvy: "The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?"Jules Verne
- The Prisoner Of Zenda: “I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).”Anthony Hope
- The Fall Of The Moghul Empire Of HindustanH.G. Keene
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - The White People: “Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Angel Of Terror: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
- Alfred Lord Tennysons Drama, A Review: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
- Sketches Of Young Men: “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”Charles Dickens
- Under The Greenwood Tree: "If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we doomed to remain single we do."Thomas Hardy
- The Aspern Papers: “I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.”Henry James
- The Elixir Of LifeHonore De Balzac
- From The Earth To The Moon: “How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”Jules Verne
- An Ambitious Man: “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- The Mayor Of Casterbridge, By Thomas Hardy: "Some folks want their luck buttered."Thomas Hardy
- Mugby Junction: “Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.”Charles Dickens
- The Bird's Christmas Carol: “It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.”Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Westward Ho!: "All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."Charles Kingsley
- The Fourth Plague: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
- Elizabeth Gaskell - Lizzie Leigh: “I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.”Elizabeth Gaskell
- Hunting SketchesAnthony Trollope
- The Railway ChildrenEdith Nesbit
- SummerEdith Wharton
- American Notes: "We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."Rudyard Kipling
- The Cricket On The Hearth: "We forge the chains we wear in life.”Charles Dickens
- 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 is not my nature."Jane Austen
- The AvengerThomas De Quincey
- Coming HomeEdith Wharton
- My Antonia: “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”Willa Cather
- The Profits of Religion: "The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived."Upton Sinclair
- The Well Beloved, By Thomas Hardy: "A man's silence is wonderful to listen to."Thomas Hardy
- The Lady & The Law: "Did you ever know a woman who could resist looking out of a window?"Wilkie Collins
- The Hidden MasterpieceHonore De Balzac
- Letters Of Demonology & Witchcraft: "We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."Sir Walter Scott
- A Simple SoulGustave Flaubert
- Stage Land: "I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at is for hours."Jerome K Jerome
- An Inland Voyage: "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but playing a poor hand well."Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Wreck Of The Golden Mary: "It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."Charles Dickens
- Heart of Darkness: "We live as we dream…alone…"Joseph Conrad
- The Death Of A Lion: “Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live”Henry James
- Amy Foster: "A man's most open actions have a secret side to them."Joseph Conrad
- An International Episode: “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”Henry James
- The Talisman: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”Sir Walter Scott
- The Octopus ( A California Story)Frank Norris
- The Evil Genius: "In one respect, men are all alike; they hate to see a woman in tears."Wilkie Collins
- Two On A Tower, By Thomas Hardy: "But time is short, and science is infinite…"Thomas Hardy
- A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court - "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus": "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."Mark Twain
- An Antatctic Mystery aka The Sphinx of the Ice Fields: The Sphinx Of The IcefieldsJules Verne
- The Death Of Ivan Ilych - "He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace": "He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace."Leo Tolstoy
- The Woodlanders, By Thomas Hardy: "The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."Thomas Hardy
- On Kipling’s Stories And Arnold’s Essays: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
- EssaysPercy Bysshe Shelley
- The Path Of The King: “I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”John Buchan
- Lady Windemere's Fan: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”Oscar Wilde
- Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen: "Liberty is worth paying for."Jules Verne
- The Big TownRing Lardner
- Nana: "If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."Emile Zola
- The Club Of Queer Trades: "There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked."G.K. Chesterton
- The Unbearable Bassington: "I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart."Hector Munro Saki
- Maggie A Girl Of The StreetsStephen Crane
- Chance - "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth": "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."Joseph Conrad
- The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices: “I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.”Charles Dickens
- The Man Who Knew Too Much: “Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.”GK Chesterton
- Flower FablesLouisa May Alcott
- Laodicean, By Thomas Hardy: "Fear is the mother of foresight."Thomas Hardy
- Around the World in Eighty Days: “I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new”Jules Verne
- A Cathedral Courtship: “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”Kate Douglas Wiggin
- HP Lovecraft - The Essays of HP Lovecraft: "The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."H.P. Lovecraft
- Riders Of The Purple SageZane Grey
- Red Badge Of Courage: “It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.”Stephen Crane
- The Story Of The Gadsby: "One may fall but he falls by himself - Falls by himself with himself to blame."Rudyard Kipling
- Daisy Miller: “She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”Henry James
- Master Humphrey's Clock: “I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”Charles Dickens
- Ivanhoe: "All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."Sir Walter Scott
- The Law Of The Four Just Men: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
- Little Women: "Conceit spoils the finest genius."Louisa May Alcott
- Flora Annie Steel - English Fairy Tales: Classic tales, fables, lessons and stories for kidsFlora Annie Steel
- The Way Of All Flesh: "Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime."Samuel Butler
- Off On A Comet , aka The Career of a Comet or Hector Servadac: Or Hector ServadacJules Verne
- The Purcell PapersJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Black Dwarf: "Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."Sir Walter Scott
- Silas Marner: "There's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself…"George Eliot
- Notes From The Underground: "To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Diary Of A NobodyGeorge Grossmith Grossmith
- Tom Sawyer: Abroad: "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."Mark Twain
- Confessions Of An English Opium Eater - "That those eat now who never ate before; And those who always ate, now eat the more.”Thomas De Quincey
- The Blithedale Romance: “To do nothing is the way to be nothing.”Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Jew Of MaltaChristopher Marlowe
- The Water Babies: “The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”Charles Kingsley
- Maria, or The Wrongs Of WomanMary Wollstonecraft
- Plain Tales from the Raj: "A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."Rudyard Kipling
- The Athiest's MassHonore De Balzac
- What Is Free TradeEmile Walter
- Greenmantle: "Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."John Buchan
- The Real DopeRing Lardner
- A Journal Of The Plague YearDaniel Defoe
- Kim: "There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this."Rudyard Kipling
- The Mysterious Island. Part 1 - Dropped From the Clouds: “It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”Jules Verne
- The Centre Of Indian Culture: "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."Rabindranath Tagore
- Bosambo Of The RiverEdgar Wallace
- The Brothers Karamazov: “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Madame Bovary: "She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris."Gustave Flaubert
- Romantic Adventures Of A Milkmaid: "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."Thomas Hardy
- The Man Who Bought London: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
- Typhoon: "There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea."Joseph Conrad
- Riders To The Sea: “A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drownded, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But WE do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.”JM Synge
- Rodney Stone: "We can't command our love, but we can our actions."Arthur Conan Doyle
- D H Lawrence - Women In Love: "Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself."DH Lawrence
- Alarms And Discursions (A Selection Of Essays)G.K. Chesterton
- The Lair of the White WormBram Stoker
- The Life Of Phineas T Barnum: "Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master."Joel Benton
- An Outcast Of The Islands: "It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose."Joseph Conrad
- The Melody Of Death: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
- The Underdogs (Los De Abajo): “Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.”Mariano Azuela
- The Prince: “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”Niccolo Machiavelli
- Daisy's AuntE.F. Benson
- The Anthem, By Ayn RandAyn Rand
- Harry Heathcote Of GangoilAnthony Trollope
- In The South Seas: "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."Robert Louis Stevenson
- Orthodoxy: "The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."G.K. Chesterton
- D H Lawrence - Sons & Lovers: "Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether."DH Lawrence
- On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau
- Miss MappE.F. Benson
- The Little White Bird: “The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”JM Barrie
- The Surgeon's Daughter: “Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.”Sir Walter Scott
- The Scarlet Letter: "She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom."Nathaniel Hawthore
- Louis LambertHonore De Balzac
- The Pupil: “Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.”Henry James
- The Book of All Power: “I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.”Edgar Wallace
- Mr Standfast: “The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.”John Buchan
- The Adventures of Doctor DoolittleHugh Lofting
- Revolt Of The Tartars: "The public is a bad guesser."Thomas De Quincey
- The Crimes Of England: “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”G.K. Chesterton
- The Battle Of Life: “I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”Charles Dickens
- Early FictionEdith Wharton
- A Woman Of The World: "Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air."Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- A Pair Of Blue Eyes: "So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity."Thomas Hardy
- You Know Me AlRing Lardner
- Emma: "Better be without sense than misapply it as you do."Jane Austen
- The Mysterious Island. Part 3 - The Secret of the Island: “If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”Jules Verne
- Night And Day: "I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything."Virginia Woolf
- Lord Jim: "You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends."Joseph Conrad
- A Tale Of TubJonathan Swift
- How To Analyze People On SightElsie Lincoln Benedict
- Sailors Fortune Essays: "Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Christopher Marlowe - Massacre At Paris: "Virtue is the fount whence honour springs."Christopher Marlowe
- The Blotting BookE.F. Benson
- Running A Thousand Miles For FreedomWilliam Craft
- The Golden Lion Of GranpereAnthony Trollope
- Elizabeth Gaskell - The Poor Clare: “I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it was not me.”Elizabeth Gaskell
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