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“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
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“He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed shoes and worsted hose. His face was arresting, sensitive, medieval in some strange inexplicable way, and I was reminded of a portrait seen in a gallery I had forgotten where, of a certain Gentleman Unknown. Could one but rob him of his English tweeds, and put him in black, with lace at his throat and wrists, he would stare down at us in our new world from a long distant past—a past where men walked cloaked at night, and stood in the shadow of old doorways, a past of narrow stairways and dim dungeons, a past of whispers in the dark, of shimmering rapier blades, of silent, exquisite courtesy.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
Reason Reigns & Royal Serf
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A group about my novels and other writings, and about friends and other readers. Reason Reigns and Royal Serf - A Hearing http://www.goodreads.com/a ...more
All Things Medieval
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where people can talk about anything and everything Medieval from known historical figures to life and times of the period to favorite authors of the ...more
Richard III
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A group for those goodreads members and Ricardians (or not!) who would like to discuss all things Richard III. Clarification April 2017. The purpose ...more
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