Source: Short fiction, The Martian and the Moron (1949), p. 37
“I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.”
Book V, Ch. 42.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you.”
Variant: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Source: Persuasion

In his letter to Atterbury Bishop of Rochester. Sept. 23. 1720.

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Ruminator Magazine interview http://www.ruminator.com/?p=82 with Susannah McNeely (August/September 2005).

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From an interview with poet and critic Louise Chandler Moulton, 1883.
Source: [Alberghene, Janice, Clark, Beverly, Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays, 2013, 1999, 9781138798977, Routledge]