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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

Bram Stoker

But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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Effort Free Our Pledge Secret Set Silence Toil World
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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Act Become Castle Conscious Courtyard Driver Fact House Pill Ruin Suddenly Vast
It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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Armor Enemy Glory God Honour Love Peril Safety Sheath Soul Weapon
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Mean Men Patience
We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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Arm Comprehensive Gigantic Hear Mouth Radiating Shallow Tentaculae
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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Actor Fame Minute Second Won Year
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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Both Even Fall Harm Heart Horror Many Much She So Suffer Walk
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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Eye Fall Image Lying Waxen
Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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Dear Here Knew Laugh Matter Regard Strange Worth
Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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Again Come Freely House Once Welcome
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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Brain Come End Feel Must No Own Shock Undoing Unhinge
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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All Different Direction Drawn Fight Like Men Pull Rope Strain Women
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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Brood Loneliness Our Over Roof Sit Wing
No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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All Boy Castle Children Death Enter Even Face Girl King Know Little Live Man So Wee Women
Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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Alone Alter Bearable Fact Help Make More Sympathy
You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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Endless Figure Gate Guess Join Long Measurem Terrible Open

I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

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