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“Gudeman, ye hae a tongue, and so has a bell.”
― John Galt, The Entail

“We ate our soup to slow waltz time, with the result that every spoonful was cold before we got it up to our mouth. Just as the fish came, the band started a quick polka, and the consequence of that was that we had not time to pick out the bones. We gulped down white wine to the "Blacksmith's Galop," and if the tune had lasted much longer we should both have been blind drunk. With the advent of our steaks, the band struck up a selection from Wagner.”
― Jerome Klapka Jerome, Diary Of A Pilgrimage

“It was something you found in new countries: people came to them to change who they were, not by self-improvement, but by creating a better or more interesting past.”
― Wendy M Wilson, Death in the Bush: An Amateur Sleuth Historical Mystery Set in the Wild New Zealand Bush

“And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay. And if ever she is a woman, who knows but we may meet somewhere? there is plenty of room for meeting in the universe.”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes