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1 " If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may-no matter how generous and good his nature- one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so. "
― Charles Dickens , Oliver Twist
2 " The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have proved by actual experiment that, in exact proportion to the force with which this machine works, heat is abstracted from the electrical battery. You see, therefore, that living force may be converted into heat, and that heat may be converted into living force, or its equivalent attraction through space. "
― James Prescott Joule , The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule
3 " Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. "
4 " The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it. "
5 " All travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. "
6 " Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. "
