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Early in the following week, during a performance of Richard, Pip Barnard had to go on as understudy and, wearing a heavy cloak, he knocked against the open keys of a piano offstage. Just when Richard was in the middle of the soliloquy, ‘Is
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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