Write down the 4th Sentence on the 23rd page of the book beside your hand

If there were any way at all of sheltering from Death's blows-even by crawling under the skin of a calf-I am not the man to recoil from it. -Montaigne's Essays

Just as, before her husband's death, she had confided in her friends about her love affair, so she chatted about it after his death, with the arresting sergeant.

And did Mister-r Stuart retur-rn next day, as he said in's note?

Flags in the Dust by William Faulkner

"To that devout woman, M. Myriel was both her brother and her bishop, her friend in nature and her superior in the Church."

Les Miserables

~Pardon the rather extremem bump. Didn't catch the date till it was too late.

'We're leaving,' Baba said.

Is not this your son, my Lord?

Shakespeare's King Lear

"Maar eerst moet hij helemaal bedaard zijn."

(Marcellus Emants, Liefdeleven, 1916)

"But first he must be completely calm."

(Marcellus Emants, Living Love Life, 1916) As yet untranslated, but I think he would have liked the title.

All it needs from you is that you take care not to trample on it.

"...a ballad about the troubles in our native land."

James Joyce - Dubliners

'How gloomier is the contrast
(Of human nature there!')

Queen Mab - Percy Shelley

I'll tell you some truth, just one, for today; far more than the truth.

Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. - Holy Bible New International Version.

He discovered that Duer had enthusiasm fot two composers, called Bach and Beethoven, presumably Germans, and that he himself did not yet comprehend all the ways of the world. -Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

That is, if mere empty words can prove it, it stands proved--and in this way, without committing himself, he gives the reader a chance to infer that there isn't any extant evidence but words, and that he doesn't take much stock in them.

In Defence of Harriet Shelley, by Mark Twain

There is a vanilla cake with blue wax candles. - the five people you meet in heaven