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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2 QUOTES

1 " He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to. "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2

2 " Dora. "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2

3 " He was one of those men whom success never mollified, whose enjoyment of a point gained always demanded some hoarse note of triumph from his own trumpet. "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2

4 " If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also? "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2

5 " My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great hearted, true gentleman. I burst into tears, I am afraid, my dear, you will think this a very sloppy letter in more ways than one, and I really felt very badly. Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble? "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2

6 " Chapter 44 — The Coming Election       The very greatness of Mr Melmotte’s popularity, the extent of the admiration which was accorded by the public at large to his commercial enterprise and financial sagacity, created a peculiar bitterness in the opposition that was organized against him at Westminster. As the high mountains are intersected by deep valleys, as puritanism in one age begets infidelity in the next, as in many countries the thickness of the winter’s ice will be in proportion to the number of the summer musquitoes, so was the keenness of the hostility displayed on this occasion in proportion to the warmth of the support which was manifested. As the great man was praised, so also was he abused. As he was a demi-god to some, so was he a fiend to others. And indeed there was hardly any other way in which it was possible to carry on the contest against him. From the moment in which Mr Melmotte had declared his purpose of standing for Westminster in the Conservative interest, an attempt was made to drive him down the throats of the electors by clamorous assertions of his unprecedented commercial greatness. "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2

7 " Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him. "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2

8 " He was overwhelmed by the beauty of the world. Beside that nothing seemed to matter. "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2

9 " A schoolfellow of Vronsky’s and of the same age, he was a general and was expecting a command, which might have influence on the course of political events; while Vronsky, independent and brilliant and beloved by a charming woman though he was, was simply a cavalry captain who was readily allowed to be as independent as ever he liked. "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2

10 " The poet replied: “I always am, my child; you will be too in a few years. While one is climbing the ladder, one sees the top and feels hopeful; but when one has reached that summit, one sees the descent and the end which is death. It is slow work ascending, but one descends rapidly. At your age one is joyous; one hopes for many things which never come to pass. At mine, one expects nothing but death. "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2

11 " the only painting worth anything was done with the heart. "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2

12 " How great would be the disgrace to such a borough as that of Westminster if it should find that it had been taken in by a false spirit of speculation and that it had surrendered itself to gambling when it had thought to do honour to honest commerce. "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2

13 " On the twelfth of June, 1812, the forces of Western Europe crossed the Russian frontier and war began, that is, an event took place opposed to human reason and to human nature. Millions of men perpetrated against one another such innumerable crimes, frauds, treacheries, thefts, forgeries, issues of false money, burglaries, incendiarisms, and murders as in whole centuries are not recorded in the annals of all the law courts of the world, but which those who committed them did not at the time regard as being crimes. "

― Lewis Carroll , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2