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  1. E.M. Forster _ Aspects of the Novel

    Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
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  2. Charles Dickens _ Great Expectations

    Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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  3. Robert Louis Stevenson _ Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes

    There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.
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  4. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That's about used up, I should think.
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  5. Jennifer L. Armentrout _ The Problem with Forever

    My toes curled against the soft leather sofa pf my flip-flops and my throat felt scratchy as i forced the words out. "I'm...I'm new." There! I did it. I spoke. Take that, everyone! Words were totally my bitch.
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