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The Baby Scandal (Scandalous, #1)

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Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

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This Doesn't Happen In The Movies (Reed Ferguson Mystery, #1) by Renee Pawlish

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“Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
― Charles Lamb

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“To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels

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“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

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“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

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“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

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