quotation: Lewis Carroll

How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is, “Who in the world am I?” Ah, that’s the great puzzle!Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Discuss

quotation: Charles Dickens — “…it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”)

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done;

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Discuss

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quotation: ‘Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. William Makepeace Thackeray

‘Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) Discuss

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this day in the yesteryear: Queen Victoria Ascends British Throne (1837)

Queen Victoria Ascends British Throne (1837)

Queen Victoria ruled the UK for more than 63 years, longer than any other British monarch. Her reign, known as the Victorian Era, coincided with the height of the Industrial Revolution and was marked by significant social, economic, and technological changes in the UK. Though the Irish Potato Famine adversely affected Victoria’s popularity, she was mostly well liked. She was a carrier of the hereditary illness later dubbed the “royal disease.” What is the disease called today? More… Discuss

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QUOTATION: Thomas Hardy

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

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QUOTATION: Charles Dickens – “I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

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QUOTATION: Kate Chopin

She had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

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Quotation: Virginia Woolf

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

 

Quotation: Jerome K. Jerome about marriage

Brains are at a discount in the married state. There is no demand for them, no appreciation even.

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

 

Quotation: Charles Dickens

We are not rich in the bank, but we have always prospered, and we have quite enough. I never walk out with my husband but I hear the people bless him … I never lie down at night but I know that in the course of that day he has alleviated pain and soothed some fellow-creature in the time of need … Is not this to be rich?

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