"I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!"
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"I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town."
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"Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor."
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"He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again."
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"He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul."
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"She went of her own accord,' answered the master; 'she has a right to go if she please. Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only me sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me."
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"I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!"
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"But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest."
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"The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent."
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"And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out and drank his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - til then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head!"
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"Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?"
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"In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away"
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"That is how I'm loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul."
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"I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception."
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"Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity."
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"Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!"
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"Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe."
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"But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing."
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"Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy."
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"He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen."
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