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H.G. Wells - Tono Bungay: "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

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Hannah More - Celebs In Search of a Wife: "A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent"

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Henry Fielding - Amelia: "Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."

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Henry Fielding - From This World To The Next: “I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.” 

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Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews Vol 1 & 2: "If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."

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Henry Fielding - The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild: "All nature wears one universal grin."

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Henry Fielding - The Modern Husband: "A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool."

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Herman Melville - I and My Chimney: “I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge”

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Herman Melville - Israel Potter: "Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth"

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Herman Melville - Mardi, and A Voyage Thither. Volume I (of II): "It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open"

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Herman Melville - Mardi, and A Voyage Thither. Volume II (of II): "Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow"

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Herman Melville - Moby Dick or, The Whale: "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme"

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Herman Melville - Pierre or, The Ambiguities: "Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things"

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Herman Melville - The Confidence Man: "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation"

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Herman Melville - Typee: "Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone"

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Herman Melville - White Jacket: “Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning”

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Hesba Stretton - A Thorny Path: "The most wretched man cannot die when he will, or as quickly as he will"

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Hesba Stretton - Alone In London: "It had been a close and sultry day—one of the hottest of the dog-days"

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Hesba Stretton - Brought Home: "One lie from a truthful man is more hurtful than all the lies of a liar"

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Hesba Stretton - Cobwebs and Cables: “Sin spreads misery around it only when there is ground ready for the bad seed” 

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Hesba Stretton - Fern's Hollow: "Patience is better than strength"

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Hesba Stretton - Jessica's First Prayer: "The sound of her shrill childish laugh made the minister’s heart ache"

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Hesba Stretton - Little Meg's Children: "'Mother is going to live with the angels,' said Meg"

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Hesba Stretton - No Place Like Home: "There was not another home like it in all the parish of Broadmoor"

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Hesba Stretton - The Doctor's Dilemma: "Three weeks of it had driven me to the very verge of desperation"

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Hesba Stretton - Under the Old Roof: “The sins of good men are greater than the sins of bad men"

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Hugh Walpole - Fortitude: "Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world."

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Hugh Walpole - The Captives: "Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life."

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Hugh Walpole - The Cathedral: "In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."

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Hugh Walpole - The Dark Forest: "Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together."

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Hugh Walpole - The Duchess of Wrexe: Her Decline and Death. A Romantic Commentary

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Hugh Walpole - The Gods and Mr Perrin: A Tragi-Comedy

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Hugh Walpole - The Prelude to Adventure: "I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams."

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Hugh Walpole - The Secret City: "Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world."

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Hugh Walpole - The Wooden Horse: "In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."

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Israel Zangwill - Dreamers of the Ghetto: 'No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man''

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