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Charlotte Smith - Celestina: “I have heard that all ideas of equality are visionary—that they can never be realised—and I believe it"

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Charlotte Smith - Emmeline: “Ah! thus man spoils Heaven's glorious works with blood!”

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Daniel Defoe - A General History of the Pyrates: "And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst"

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Daniel Defoe - A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before: "Pride the first peer and president of hell"

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Daniel Defoe - Memoirs of a Cavalier: “If God much strong, much might, as the devil, why God not kill the devil, so make him no more wicked?”

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Daniel Defoe - The Fortunate Mistress or, Roxana. Parts I & II: “Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there"

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Daniel Defoe - The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: "The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear"

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Daniel Defoe - The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: "The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late"

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Daniel Defoe - The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton: "What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?"

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E.W. Hornung - A Thief In The Night: "I pick my words with care and pain"

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E.W. Hornung - At Large: "A deadly stillness enveloped the plain, making all sounds staccato"

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E.W. Hornung - Dead Men Tell No Tales: "There was, however, one slice of luck in store for me"

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E.W. Hornung - Denis Dent A Novel: "The better part of valour was the only part he lacked"

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E.W. Hornung - Fathers of Men: "He had the air of a man who has told the worst"

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E.W. Hornung - Mr. Justice Raffles: "Raffles had opened his door as only Raffles could open doors"

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E.W. Hornung - No Hero: “Success followed as it will, when one longs to fail"

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E.W. Hornung - Peccavi: "Optional surroundings afford a fair clue to the superficial man, but no real key to character"

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E.W. Hornung - The Boss of Taroomba: "The little musician had turned upon his tormentor like a knife"

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E.W. Hornung - The Camera Fiend: "He had the timorous, the imaginative temperament, which lends to adventure its very salt"

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E.W. Hornung - The Shadow of a Man: “Violence is a confession of terrible incompetence” 

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E.W. Hornung - The Shadow of the Rope: "It was disagreeable not to be in a position to satisfy the curiosity of others"

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E.W. Hornung - The Thousandth Women: "Didn't you spend nights in a log-hut miles and miles from any other human being?"

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E.W. Hornung - The Unbidden Guest: "It was time for him to say the difficult thing which had occurred to him…."

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E.W. Hornung - Tiny Luttrell: "Nothing could make him love her less. He heard no more of her, but that made no difference"

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Edgar Wallace - Clarence Clark: “Vanity takes no more obnoxious form than the everlasting desire for approval”

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Edgar Wallace - Major Haynes of the Secret Service: "'I do not like your habit,' said Haynes in Spanish and shot him through the mouth"

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Edgar Wallace - The Adventures of Captain Hex: “I offered you a job at nothing a week, but with prospects"

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Edgar Wallace - The Companions of the Ace High: "He shot her from where he stood and she died instantly"

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Edgar Wallace - The Elusive Dud: "Professional Friend and Confidential Adviser"

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Edgar Wallace - The Strange Lapses of Larry Loman: "A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women"

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Edgar Wallace - The Worst Man in the World: “I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker”

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton - A Strange Story: "Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets"

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Alice: or, The Mysteries

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Devereux: "One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth"

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Ernest Maltravers: "A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool"

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Eugene Aram: "Art and science have their meeting point in method"

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