"Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?"

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John Milton

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“How can you be sure?" "I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist." "Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father? When you were so busy implanting all your neural chips, did you think about that? Did you snip my soul from my old body, too? Where did you put it? Show me! Where? Where in all this groundbreaking technology did you insert my soul?”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.129, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
“They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights.”
“I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.”
“A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined toward a passion if one does not love its cause. For who, disdaining shame, is given to vainglory? Or who, loving lowliness, is bothered by dishonor? Who, having a broken and humble heart, accepts fleshly sweetness? Or who, believing in Christ, is concerned about temporal things, or argues about them?”
“When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.”
“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”
“It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2003). “That Affair Next Door and Lost Man’s Lane”, p.18, Duke University Press
“Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.”

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