R.D. Blackmore quotes
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“...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?”
-- R.D. BlackmoreSource : M. J. Porteus, R.D. Blackmore (2014). “Lorna Doone: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.93, Crimson Romance
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“It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.”
-- R.D. BlackmoreSource : R.D. BLACKMORE (1889). “LORNA DOONE”
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“Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.”
-- R.D. BlackmoreSource : R. D. Blackmore (2006). “Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor”, p.151, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.”
-- R.D. BlackmoreSource : R.D. Blackmore “Lorna Doone”
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“Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.”
-- R.D. BlackmoreSource : R. D. Blackmore (2006). “Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth...”
-- R.D. BlackmoreSource : Annabella Bloom, Lucy Hartbury, Brenna Chase, M.J. Porteus, Emily Bronte (2015). “Wildly Wanton: 10 Spiced-Up Literary Classics”, p.4063, Interweave
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“'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'”
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“Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . .”
-- R.D. BlackmoreSource : M. J. Porteus, R.D. Blackmore (2014). “Lorna Doone: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.23, Crimson Romance
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“It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to say 'what are you at?' - before the first tree it ever spoke to is a dummy, or the first hill it ever ran down has turned blue, here we all have airs and graces, demands and assertions of a full grown river.”
-- R.D. BlackmoreSource : R. D. Blackmore (2015). “Crocker's Hole: From "Slain by the Doones"”, p.4, The Floating Press
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“Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.”
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“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”
Source : Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”
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“When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.”
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“Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.”
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