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  1. Essays — First Series

    Fame dazzles; likeness heals—true friendship comes from a soul that feels like blood.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  2. The Odyssey

    Her cheeks flowed like melting snow, yet he kept his eyes hard as iron—how long can she test him?
    Homer

  3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    They're missed and mourned—and the town's sorrow turns into the boys' greatest triumph.
    Mark Twain

  4. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    If Love could conspire with Fate, would you tear the world's order apart to remake it for the heart?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

  5. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    I wrote 'We ain't dead' on sycamore bark—and then, moved by guilt or love, I kissed him while he slept.
    Mark Twain

  6. Pride and Prejudice

    If gratitude and esteem can build affection, is sudden passion any less valid?
    Jane Austen

  7. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    Exhausted and alone, I swore eternal war on mankind—and most of all on my maker.
    Mary Shelley

  8. The Republic

    Justice began as a bargain: neither doing nor suffering wrong—if it's a middle ground, is it virtue?
    Plato

  9. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Haunted houses are worse than dead people—they slide in shrouds and peep over your shoulder.
    Mark Twain

  10. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Life flies; the flower that once has bloomed dies forever—what will you do with the only certain moment?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

  11. The Republic

    If human nature requires it, our rulers will need consummate skill—what kind of governance could that be?
    Plato

  12. The Republic

    Music fixes rhythm and harmony in the soul before reason arrives—how does early taste shape moral judgment?
    Plato

  13. Pride and Prejudice

    He will not give himself the trouble—so I had to answer for him.
    Jane Austen

  14. Treasure Island

    No spirit throws a shadow—so why did this one have an echo answering back? The island's superstition suddenly looks unstable.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  15. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    A bird that laid an egg after it was dead—the brightest blue egg; how could such an impossible relic exist?
    Arthur Conan Doyle