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(3 Reviews)Overall Rank: 35357 points"Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family."Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. (Maude/Maude)
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(34 Reviews)Overall Rank: 3946 points"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
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(2 Reviews)Overall Rank: 4925 points"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
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(15 Reviews)Overall Rank: 5856 points"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth."
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(5 Reviews)Overall Rank: 9703 points"Through the fence, between the curling
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(4 Reviews)Overall Rank: 15640 points"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—...
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(3 Reviews)Overall Rank: 14642 points"Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.
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(4 Reviews)Overall Rank: 188102 points"By now the other warriors, those that had escaped headlong ruin by sea or in battle, were safely home.Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once..."
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(13 Reviews)Overall Rank: 19540 points"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
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(2 Reviews)Overall Rank: 106180 points"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita/mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,/chè la diritta via era smarrita.Mildway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the..."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 22390 points"When the sweet showers of April have pierced/ The drought of March, and pierced it to the root,/ And every vein is bathed in that moisture/ Whose quickening force will engender the flower;/ And..."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 81225 points"My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 21519 points"Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not..."
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(2 Reviews)Overall Rank: 67255 points"Okonkwo was well-known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honour to his village by throwing..."
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(21 Reviews)Overall Rank: 7735 points"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they...
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(9 Reviews)Overall Rank: 16606 points"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm, as the Tarleton twins were."
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(9 Reviews)Overall Rank: 12667 points"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de..."
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(59 Reviews)Overall Rank: 1994 points"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
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(12 Reviews)Overall Rank: 6823 points"It was love at first sight."
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(4 Reviews)Overall Rank: 8719 points"124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children."
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(17 Reviews)Overall Rank: 2963 points"To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 29391 points"I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time."
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(10 Reviews)Overall Rank: 13664 points"A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 33365 points"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa..."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 39348 points"Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 29274 points"When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past..."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 147133 points"This is the showing forth of the Inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassos so that neither the deeds of men may be forgotten by lapse of time, nor the works great and marvellous, which have been..."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 29772 points"My purpose is to consider if, in political society, there can be any legitimate and sure principle of government, taking men as they are and laws as they might be."
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(3 Reviews)Overall Rank: 30370 points"All the states, all the dominions under whose authority men have lived in the past and live now have been and are either republics or principalities.It is customary for those who wish to gain the..."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 31269 points"You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised: great is your power and to your wisdom there is no limit.You are great, O Lord, and very worthy of praise; mighty is your power and your wisdom..."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 31868 points"Nature (the ary whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 32967 points"Thucydides the Athenian wrote the history of the war fought between Athens and Sparta, beginning the account at the very outbreak of the war, in the belief that it was going to be a great war and..."
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(16 Reviews)Overall Rank: 11691 points"When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."
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(7 Reviews)Overall Rank: 31383 points"Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin."
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(14 Reviews)Overall Rank: 27403 points"There is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. (From The Magician's Nephew, first in chronological order)Once there were four children whose names were..."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 24469 points"Except for the Marabar caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chrandrapore presents nothing extraordinary."
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(6 Reviews)Overall Rank: 18543 points"I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."
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(28 Reviews)Overall Rank: 10701 points"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
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(5 Reviews)Overall Rank: 124155 points"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.Bibliographical introduction....
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(3 Reviews)Overall Rank: 59295 points"'What's it going to be then, eh?'"
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 99188 points"Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece.'"
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 125153 points"They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."
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(3 Reviews)Overall Rank: 48322 points"Nous étions à l'Etude, quand le Proviseur entra suivi d'un "nouveau" habillé en bourgeois et d'un garçon de classe qui portait un grand pupitre.We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in,..."
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(10 Reviews)Overall Rank: 22505 points"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (C. Garnett, 1946) and (J. Carmichael, 1960)All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy..."
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(2 Reviews)Overall Rank: 32168 points"Act 1, Scene 1 Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two sentinels. BarnardoWho's there?"
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 39651 points"I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall."
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(2 Reviews)Overall Rank: 39850 points"Never tell me; I take it much unkindly That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 40449 points"From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decrease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine..."
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(9 Reviews)Overall Rank: 66263 points"You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The..."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 161125 points"He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum."
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(12 Reviews)Overall Rank: 84219 points"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.The event on which this fiction is founded has been..."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 70250 points"The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock."
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(5 Reviews)Overall Rank: 163122 points"They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them."They're out there.
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(4 Reviews)Overall Rank: 46322 points"He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees."
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(12 Reviews)Overall Rank: 34358 points"All this happened, more or less."
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(21 Reviews)Overall Rank: 23495 points"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."
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(15 Reviews)Overall Rank: 20537 points"The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."
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(4 Reviews)Overall Rank: 24286 points"The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there'."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 65266 points"The two women were alone in the London flat."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 25455 points"For a long time, I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]"
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 128152 points"It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills."
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(3 Reviews)Overall Rank: 62281 points"Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file."
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(6 Reviews)Overall Rank: 42335 points"Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 129151 points"I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives..."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 104181 points"In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 77232 points"The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 90207 points"MASON CITY. To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, that day we went up it."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 89208 points"Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father."
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(12 Reviews)Overall Rank: 75236 points"Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast."
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(5 Reviews)Overall Rank: 32382 points"The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it..."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 50125 points"They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 20995 points"Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. "
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 60292 points"On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York."
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(2 Reviews)Overall Rank: 29971 points"She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seemed to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 108179 points"Dusk - of a summer night."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 19998 points"Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office."
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(2 Reviews)Overall Rank: 130151 points"I am living at the Villa Borghese."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 24885 points"Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth."
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(4 Reviews)Overall Rank: 63277 points"Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. (Northern lights)Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."..."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 32368 points"One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 55514 points"Under the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds,..."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 57012 points"This book would never have been written had I not been honored with an appointment as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh.It is with no small amount of trepidation..."
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(2 Reviews)Overall Rank: 64269 points"When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 50424 points"In a letter written in January 1958, Olga Owens Huckins told me of her own bitter experience of a small world made lifeless, and so brought my attention sharply back to a problem with which I had..."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 33865 points"He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think..."
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(1 Review)Overall Rank: 5927 points"As a proof of my readiness to accept autobiographical conventions, let me at once record my two earliest memories."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 5966 points"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
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(4 Reviews)Overall Rank: 49318 points"The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning his little home. "
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 6064 points"When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night."
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(0 Reviews)Overall Rank: 6153 points"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it."
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(6 Reviews)Overall Rank: 28392 points"You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy."
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Newsweek's Top 100 Books. A Meta-Level List
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