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Second Street Station (A Mary Handley Mystery, #1)

by Lawrence H. Levy

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One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York

by Arthur Browne

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Marsinah’s Quotes

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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“The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.”
― Ariana Franklin

tags: city-of-shadows

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“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: evil, good

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“Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.”
― Ariana Franklin

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