“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.”

- G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World

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“He could not help, even unconsciously, asking himself all the questions that there were to be asked, and answering as many of them as he could; all that went on like his breathing or circulation.”

- G.K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown

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“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”

- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”

- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla 🦇 🎩 🕯️

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“I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”

- John Buchan, The Thirty Nine Steps

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‘I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.’

- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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All Serene - an ejaculation of acquiescence. Some years back a popular street cry. With or without application to actual fact, the words all serene were bawled from morning to night without any reference to the serenity of the unfortunate hearers.—See SERENE

- John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

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‘In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta. There was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle cooing of pigeons in the tops of the elms.’

- A. A. Milne, The Red House Mystery

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“Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well.”

- Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”

- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

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