"It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks."

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Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

James Payn

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“Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night the monitory blast Wails in the key-hole, telling how it pass'd O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes, Or grim wide wave; and now the power is felt Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods Than any joy indulgent Summer dealt.”
“I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.”
“The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.”
“I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can.”
“Trust your intuition and be guided by love.”
“Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.”
“When I belonged to Jobbik, I didn't wear a kippa and I didn't light Hannukah candles.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.”

Source : Lisa McMann (2010). “Gone”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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