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Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next.

- Lewis Carroll Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

- Charles Dickens Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Finish, good lady the bright day is done,And we are for the dark.

- William Shakespeare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

- Charles Dickens Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heaven.

- John Milton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The chief part of the stories, however, turned upon the favorite spectre of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman, who had been heard several times of late, patrolling the country and, it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard.

- Washington Irving Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A fool, a fool I met a fool i' th' forest,A motley fool.

- William Shakespeare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

. . . impropriety is the soul of wit . . .

- W. Somerset Maugham Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety.

- William Shakespeare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes