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“I believe that a biography is more effectual than any other kind of literature in turning the mind into a new channel, and causing it to take an interest in the concerns of others rather than its own.
GEORGE HAMILTON-GORDON, 5th EARL of ABERDEEN”
― Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance
GEORGE HAMILTON-GORDON, 5th EARL of ABERDEEN”
― Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance
“Others said--and they meant it as a compliment--- that he was 'utterly unconventional in everything that he did.”
― Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance
― Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance
“You cannot have two stories. You can end with only one.”
― The House of Fortune
― The House of Fortune
“It's not every day that a hippopotamus asks for a fruitcake!”
― Santa Stops at Disneyland (Disney Classic)
― Santa Stops at Disneyland (Disney Classic)
“And putting something in words----
naming it --- allows us to recognize it
a little better when we come upon it.
It's sorta the point of all this.”
― An Age of License: A Travelogue
naming it --- allows us to recognize it
a little better when we come upon it.
It's sorta the point of all this.”
― An Age of License: A Travelogue
European Royalty
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Anyone who enjoys historical fiction or history books about Tudor England will like this group. Whether you have been all the way to England just to t ...more
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