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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Bram Stoker

And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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Children Home Land Quickest
We learn of great things by little experiences.
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Experience Great Learn Little Thing
Despair has its own calms.
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Calm Despair Own
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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Dream Fear Sweet
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Afford Before Century Man Mean Slow Succeed Wait
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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Mad Must Sanity Sometimes Strait Waistcoat Wake
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Antidote Beneficient Death Mood Nature Ordained Own Some Terror
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Begun Century Just Over Revenge Side Spread Time
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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Century Deceiving Modernity Power
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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Care Know Men No One Starnger
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
I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Doing Empty Feel Importance Nothing Seem Sort Sufficient World Worth
I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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Able Bore Describe Dress Fashion Interest Know New Sufficient
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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Good Men Thoughtful
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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Bees Escaping Following Naked Nothing
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Castles Entrance Literature

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