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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.
“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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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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