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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― The Go-Between
― The Go-Between
“If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.”
― Flashman
― Flashman
“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world. ”
― The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
― The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
“To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.”
― The Eustace Diamonds
― The Eustace Diamonds
“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
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