A sad tale’s best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

William Shakespeare · The Winter’s Tale (1610–1611), II, i

We are in God’s hand.

William Shakespeare · King Henry V (1598–1599), III, vi

Truth hath a quiet breast.

William Shakespeare · King Richard II (1595), I, iii

Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.

William Shakespeare · The Tempest (1611–1612), V, i This thing of darkness I

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So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

Victor Hugo · Les Misérables (1862), preface

"The king died and then the queen died" is a story. "The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a plot.

E. M. Forster · Aspects of the Novel (1927)

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

Emily Brontë · Catherine to Nelly Dean in the same chapter 9 speech, a moment before "Nelly, I am Heathcliff!"; the sentence before it says her love for Linton "is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it".

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“A sad tale’s best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.”

“We are in God’s hand.”

“Truth hath a quiet breast.”

“Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.”

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”

“"The king died and then the queen died" is a story. "The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a plot.”

“My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”