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And so on that bright morning, the smoky Sicilian sun making them sweat, the six Mafia chiefs rode their horses up and down along the wall surrounding Prince Ollorto’s estate. The assembled peasants, under olive trees older than Christ,
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“How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all." —SIR”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“May we be strong by doing what is right,”
― Panther in the Sky: A Novel based on the life of Tecumseh
― Panther in the Sky: A Novel based on the life of Tecumseh
“It’s my worst trouble, getting fond. If I didn’t get fond I could be happy all the time.”
― A Wrinkle in Time
― A Wrinkle in Time
“sensitive, imaginative spirit. Somewhere quiet and deep down, I knew I’d get here.”
― One Dark Window
― One Dark Window
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