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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 He was deeply read in books of chivalry and romance.
2 I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books.
3 I requested his advice concerning the books I ought to procure.
4 This book had a far different effect upon me from the Sorrows of Werter.
5 The book from which Felix instructed Safie was Volney's Ruins of Empires.
6 He also gave me the list of books which I had requested, and I took my leave.
7 But here were books, and here were men who had penetrated deeper and knew more.
8 Krempe with warmth, "every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost."
9 I should not have understood the purport of this book had not Felix, in reading it, given very minute explanations.
10 The cottage of my protectors had been the only school in which I had studied human nature, but this book developed new and mightier scenes of action.
11 But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas' books of voyages.
12 Fortunately the books were written in the language, the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch's Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter.
13 You have been tutored and refined by books and retirement from the world, and you are therefore somewhat fastidious; but this only renders you the more fit to appreciate the extraordinary merits of this wonderful man.
14 One night during my accustomed visit to the neighbouring wood where I collected my own food and brought home firing for my protectors, I found on the ground a leathern portmanteau containing several articles of dress and some books.
15 Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.