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A Tangle of Time (The Hexologists, #2)

by Josiah Bancroft

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“To see a Woman you love in Distress; to be unable to relieve her, and at the same Time to reflect that you have brought her into this Situation, is, perhaps, a Curse of which no Imagination can represent the Horrors to those who have not felt it.”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

tags: distress, love

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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

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“But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.”
― Colleen McCullough, A Creed for the Third Millennium

tags: privilege, society, work

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“Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.”
― Susan Hill, The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read: and Other Stories

tags: music, poetry, words

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“Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

tags: death, fame, posterity, writing

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