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The Traveller and Other Stories

by Stuart Neville (Goodreads Author)

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“Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. (To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.)”
― Lucretius, The Way Things Are

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“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

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“Emigres: Earned their livelihood by giving guitar lessons and mixing salads.”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

tags: emigres, flaubert

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“A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

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“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.”
― Henry James, The Ambassadors

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