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His attention fixed itself on the pack of juveniles. They were here, the earwig-like sleuths. Each juvenile was a foot and a half long.
“It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.”
― The Girl in Blue
― The Girl in Blue
“He’s not going to sell any of those caps. He should just let the monkeys keep them. They are the only ones that want them anyway.”
― Dad Is Fat
― Dad Is Fat
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
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“Love is the fart Of every heart: It pains a man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose. ”
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“Most of the private “physicians” visited by the people we talked to in Rajasthan were not qualified doctors but quacks of one kind or another—what in Rajasthan are slightingly referred to as “Bengali doctors.”
― The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
― The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
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