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The Last Lady B

by Eloisa James (Goodreads Author)

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by Patricia Gaffney

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Book cover for A Much Maligned Miss (Victorian Reversal of Fortune, #2)

A Much Maligned Miss (Victorian Reversal of Fortune, #2) by Alice Coldbreath

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After a brief pause, Caroline passed her arms about his back. “Did you…go out without your coat on?” she asked breathlessly. “Wives may bombard a man with incessant questions,” he replied. “But you, madam, have no desire to be my wife, so ...more

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“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

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“We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I hold him in higher esteem than the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. He'll forever be the patron saint of America.”
― George Washington

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