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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

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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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Caprice and Rondo (The House of Niccolo, #7) by Dorothy Dunnett

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Latterly he had been forced to recognise, with angry reluctance, that the growing exchange of commodities was a weapon he could not afford to neglect.

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“Princess Margaret felt most at home in the company of the camp: the cultured and the waspish. It was to be her misfortune that such a high proportion of them kept diaries and moreover, diaries written with a view to publication. To a man they were mesmerised less by her image than by the cracks to be found in it.”
― Craig Brown, Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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“The two of them, the group captain and the princess had called it a day.four years before when she was 25 years old. But when you are royal, nothing is allowed to be forgotten. That is the price to pay for being part of history.”
― Craig Brown, Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams,

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“I never gave them courage,” he said. “I was able to focus theirs.”
― Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

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“There are several ways," he said shyly, "in which I'm trying to improve myself. I have a great many books and records and now I'm learning to play golf. Do you know golf, Sister? The English think it's a very serious game. I was going to learn a much more serious game called cricket, but you need twenty two people...”
― Rumer Godden, Black Narcissus

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