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What are the Northanger Abbey Quotes? (5)

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  • “gentleman read better books.”
  • “She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance”
  • “a few years of torment is worth a lifetime of being able to read.”
  • “ imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms”
  • “No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.”
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What are the Notes from Underground quotes? (4)

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  • “a sick man . . . a wicked man . . . an unattractive man”
  • “such pleasure in pain is a way of spiting the comfortable predictability of life in modern society”
  • “Ha, ha, ha! Next you’ll be finding pleasure in a toothache!” you will exclaim, laughing. “And why not? There is also pleasure in a toothache,” I will answer. -“I sensed vaguely that she was going to pay dearly for it all. . . .”
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What are The Pearl quotes? (6)

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  • “It was the rifle that broke down the barriers.”
  • “This pearl is like a sin! It will destroy us”
  • “He looked into his pearl to find his vision.”
  • “removed from human experience”
  • “This pearl has become my soul. . . . If I give it up, I shall lose my soul.”
  • “Have I nothing better to do than cure insect bites for ‘little Indians’? I am a doctor, not a veterinary.”
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What are The Trial Quotes? (5)

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  • “acknowledged the stranger’s right to oversee his actions”
  • “lived in a state governed by law”
  • “confess the first chance you get. That’s the only chance you have to escape”
  • “Josef […] you’ve undergone a total metamorphosis
  • “nipped in the bud”
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