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| A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 82%
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| Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. | Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | 82%
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| “Young man,” laughed the farmer, “You’re sort of a fool! You’ll never catch fish In McElligot’s Pool!” “The pool is too small. And, you might as well know it, When people have junk Here’s the place where they throw it. “You might catch a boot Or you might catch a can. You might catch a bottle, But listen, young man … If you sat fifty years With your worms and your wishes, You’d grow a long beard Long before you’d catch fishes!” | McElligot’s Pool | Dr. Seuss | 65%
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| The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it will be true. I wonder if it’s that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem. | “Theme for English B” | Langston Hughes | 59%
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| A flea and a fly in a flue Were imprisoned, so what could they do? Said the fly, "let us flee!" "Let us fly!" said the flea. So they flew through a flaw in the flue. | “A Flea and a Fly in a Flue” | Ogden Nash | 47%
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| There’s a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you. They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through. | “Daddy” | Sylvia Plath | 47%
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| The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. | Diggers | Terry Pratchett | 47%
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| Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. | Last Chance to See | Douglas Adams | 41%
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| If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats. | The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Vol. 3) | Lemony Snicket | 29%
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| She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy. | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 18%
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