"I think I would rather have you open it, dearest," said she, turning over the parcel.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy
You have your opinion, I dare say; and I have mine, I know.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Of course, it is glorious to defeat a greatly superior army and to lose half your own in doing so; that may be heroic, but it is not modern war.
— from With Moore at Corunna by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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