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“every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion
“Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever: your veins are full of ice-water; but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chillness makes them dance.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions? How much of the fall of the avalanche is in their anger? of the breaking up of the frozen sea in their displeasure?” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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