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Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
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Alberto Manguel |
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When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown. Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.
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monarchs
subjects
nothing
emptiness
titles
kings
purpose
justice
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Daniel Defoe |
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Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade.
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Julia Quinn |
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Books require titles; reading them doesn't
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class
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Alan Moore |
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Well, you know the form,' Bedingfield says. 'She lives in that room and has her ladies - those ones - cook for her over the fire. You knock and go in, and if you call her Lady Katherine she kicks you out, and if you call her Your Highness she lets you stay. So I call her nothing. You, I call her. As if she were a girl that scrubs the steps.
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Hilary Mantel |