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There was no need for a doctor; it was rare to call one for something as routine as childbirth, and the nearest, in Basingstoke, was seven miles away over bad roads. In any case, “everything was soon happily over.”
So crazy to imagine! Women had to be extra tough.
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
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“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
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