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Book cover for The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz #1)

The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz #1) by Anthony Horowitz

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I got the feeling that he might have been very handsome as a child but something had happened to him at some time in his life so that, although he still wasn’t ugly, he was curiously unattractive. It was as if he had become a bad photograph ...more

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Anissa’s Quotes

“We are all glamorous, some more so than others.”
― Iain Cameron Williams, The Empirical Observations of Algernon

tags: glamor, glamorous, iain-cameron-williams

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“When life gives you lemons, ask for chocolate instead!”
― Nashita

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“she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life.”
― Sarah Caudwell, Thus Was Adonis Murdered

tags: taxes

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“I never lose, I either win or learn”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: attitude, inspirational, positive-thinking

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“Sometimes, indeed, he went so far as to visualise himself as an archangel, a rotund St. Michael, armed with the sword of Dymond and defended by the shield of Green, protecting the helpless from the assault of the massed powers of Darkness, those arch-fiends, the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.”
― Martin Edwards Michael Gilbert

tags: taxes

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