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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 The most learned philosopher knew little more.
2 By the by, I mean to lecture you a little upon their account myself.
3 Very well, and very happy, only a little uneasy that they hear from you so seldom.
4 By slow degrees he recovered and ate a little soup, which restored him wonderfully.
5 I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
6 The four others were dark-eyed, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin and very fair.
7 He bitterly deplored the false pride which led his friend to a conduct so little worthy of the affection that united them.
8 Yet his manners are so conciliating and gentle that the sailors are all interested in him, although they have had very little communication with him.
9 Krempe was a little squat man with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits.
10 Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little or because I can conceive a consolation for my toils which I may never know, that I am wavering in my resolutions.
11 He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.
12 His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness, but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing and that there was no other prospect of support.
13 I must own I felt a little proud when my captain offered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services.
14 I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.
15 When my guest was a little recovered I had great trouble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose restoration evidently depended upon entire repose.
16 These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.
17 The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.
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