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Some of the first Lowlands books published, by Colard Mansion of Bruges, were in Flemish. A calligrapher and a scribe, Mansion saw how the world was changing. He started printing in 1476, and his first book was Ovid’s Metamorphoses, for
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“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
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“I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
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“Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.”
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“Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.”
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I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.”
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“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Mrs. Goose, Her Book
― Mrs. Goose, Her Book
Dorothy Dunnett Book Club
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