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  1. The Republic

    Guardians must be dangerous to enemies and gentle to friends—without that balance, they will destroy themselves first.
    Plato

  2. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Toss aside your winter robe of repentance—the Bird of Time has only a little way to flutter.
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

  3. The Republic

    They keep looking up at perfect justice and down at human copies—what image of a man do you get by blending both?
    Plato

  4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Holmes's quiet hours at the piano are the calm before a hunt—when his languor breaks, he becomes unstoppable.
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  5. Jane Eyre

    Brine and foam—and the vast ocean of wealth, caste, and custom—stand between me and the man I love.
    Charlotte Brontë

  6. The Republic

    A true helmsman does not beg sailors to obey—so why do we expect rulers to plead for the right to govern?
    Plato

  7. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    Fanaticism convinces the many far more than it fools the one—how did a self-declared archangel make an entire ship obey delirium?
    Herman Melville

  8. Treasure Island

    Close to the gold, Silver's promises fell away—his eyes fixed on seizing the treasure and leaving a trail of betrayal behind.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  9. Treasure Island

    They whispered among the trees—then, out of the woods, a thin, trembling voice began the well-known air.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  10. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    He bounded over the ice, taller than any man—an impossible figure rushing straight at me, and I had nothing to stop it.
    Mary Shelley

  11. The Republic

    Poetry is an image of an image—how much truth survives being painted twice removed?
    Plato

  12. Pride and Prejudice

    One man has real goodness; the other only the appearance of it—whose happiness survives that mistake?
    Jane Austen

  13. Pride and Prejudice

    Pemberley rises like a landscape painted by nature—could Elizabeth already see herself its mistress?
    Jane Austen

  14. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    He seizes a lamp and dares him to look tonight—why force someone to witness a reputation meant to shame?
    Oscar Wilde

  15. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    The first morning of creation already wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)