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“Beautifully indeed! But she does everything well. Have you seen her peel a banana? It is like listening to a symphony.”
― Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
― Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
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― Dawn of the Dreadfuls
― Dawn of the Dreadfuls
“Lady Middleton piqued herself upon the elegance and extravagance of her table, and all her domestic arrangements; she loved to surprise English visitors with displays of hospitality native to her homeland, such as flavouring her soups with monkey urine and not telling anyone she had done so until the bowl had been drained.”
― Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
― Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Sailing Alone around the World
― Sailing Alone around the World
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