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‘That would be Long Tom, Short Tom and Tom Tom,’ said Jiminy, reaching for some mugs. ‘Decent lads – triplets, as it happens. They earn their keep but, as you might say, they shared one brain out between all three of them and it wasn’t that
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“But on safe opportunities, she had an indirect mode of making her negative wisdom tell upon Dorothea, and calling her down from her rhapsodic mood by reminding her that people were staring, not listening.”
― George Eliot: The Complete Works
― George Eliot: The Complete Works
“Trust to me, my boy, trust to me. I've got no wife to worm it out of me and then run out and cackle it in everybody's hearing. If you trust a man, let him be a bachelor—let him be a bachelor.”
― Adam Bede
― Adam Bede
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Who can tell what just criticisms Murr the Cat may be passing on us beings of wider speculation?”
― George Eliot: The Complete Works
― George Eliot: The Complete Works
“Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babbies," said Mrs. Poyser; "they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.”
― Adam Bede
― Adam Bede
John’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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26 friends
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