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1. "The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she had just rode out in quest of adventures." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
2. "Ah! The transitory joy of the past week had been but the lightning's arrowy course scathing where it illumined!" ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
3. "Lad, there are other starvations besides the total lack of food. There are slow starvations and divers ones. - Doctor Day" ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
4. "Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
5. "The mother smiled at his earnestness - smiled without the least misgiving; for, to her apprehension, the youth was still a boy, to wonder at and admire beauty, without being in the least danger of having his peace of mind disturbed by love." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
6. "Freedom and peace is even sweeter than wealth and honors." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
7. "You are like the angel in Cole's picture of life! You point the youth to the far-up temple of fame-""And leave him to get there as he can? Not at all, madam!" ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
8. "There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
9. "It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
10. "The unregenerate human heart is, perhaps,the most inconsistent thing in all nature; and in nothing is it more capricious than in the manifestations of its passions; and in no passion is it so fantastic as in that which it miscalls love, but which is really often only appetite." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
11. "And no sooner had Cap been commanded, if she valued her safety, not to cross the water or climb the precipice than, as a natural consequence, she began to wonder what was in the valley behind the mountain and what might be in the woods across the river. And she longed, above all things, to explore and find out for herself." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
12. "Now, the soul of Capitola naturally abhorred sentiment. If ever she gave way to serious emotion, she was sure to avenge herself by being more capricious than before." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
13. "Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!" ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
14. "Be silent!" shrieked the beldame."I won't!" said Cap. "Because you see, if we are in for the horrible, I can beat you hollow at that!" ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
15. "What the foul fiend is the meaning of all this?" ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
16. "It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!" ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
17. "Sarcastic and merciless one, you glory in the pain you give!" ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
18. "He shall bite the dust!" ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
19. "She loved old houses and old legends well enough to enjoy them; but was not sufficiently credulous to believe, or cowardly to fear, them." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
20. "Go! Go! Go! Go!' said that officer, with an expression as though he considered our Cap an individual of the animal kingdom whom neither Buffon nor any other natural philosopher had ever classified, and who, as a creature of unknown habits, might sometimes be dangerous." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
21. "Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
22. "This is a jolly imprudent adventure!" ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
23. "There are some persons whom we can never make happy. It is not in them to be so." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
24. "Now, my dear Cap, if you don't look sharp your hour is come! Nothing on earth will save you, Cap, but your own wits! For if ever I saw mischief in any one's face, it is in that fellow's that is eating you up with his great eyes at the same time that he is laughing at you with his big mouth! Now Cap, my little man, be a woman!" ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
25. "Catch me coming to my senses, when it's so delightful to be mad. I'm too sharp for that." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
26. "The priest then turning toward the bride, inquired:"Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, etc., etc., so long as ye both shall live?"To which the bride, throwing aside her veil, answered, firmly:"No! Not if he were the last man and I the last woman on the face of the earth and the human race was about to become extinct and the angel of Gabriel came down from above to ask it of me as a personal favor."The effect of this outburst, this revelation, this explosion, may be imagined but can never be adequately described." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
27. "But, my dear, if you should be caught out in the storm!""Why, I don't know but I should like it! What harm could it do? I'm not soluble in water - rain won't melt me away! I think upon the whole I rather prefer being caught in the storm," said Cap, perversely." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
28. "I wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured. It's a great deal too pleasant to be mad, and I'll stay so." ~ E.D.E.N. Southworth

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