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Niccolò Rising (The House of Niccolò, #1)

by Dorothy Dunnett

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Melindam said: " It's not the Lymond Chronicles for sure, but still very enjoyable.

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

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Melindam said: " “Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”

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Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley

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I believe that everybody should know about the life of Jane Austen, not just because she was an important novelist. The argument of this book is that she was also an important human being: someone who, quietly, changed the world.

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
― Thomas Jefferson

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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: fantasy, humor, scifi

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