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Xiveri Mates: A SciFi Alien Romance Collection (Books 4-6 with Pocket Dictionary) (Xiveri Mates Collections Book 2)

by Elizabeth Stephens (Goodreads Author)

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“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

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“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

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