What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?
("Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life")
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Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.
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Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from anything which he may lawfully claim.
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