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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

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Mar 29, 2019 06:50PM

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“The self that had laughed and raised his glass and shouted out the words with the others seemed to him now to be foolishly, dangerously, disastrously innocent.”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant

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“Violence had an enlivening effect. As long as someone else was the victim it made the blood pump, gave the world an edge of glamour.”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant

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“Some kinds of order were too vast for a human to know. But below the chaos of a single human life, you could trust that a cosmic breve was sounding.”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant

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“But below the chaos of a single human life, you could trust that a cosmic breve was sounding.”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant

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“What he had not learned from Latin or Greek he was learning from the people of New South Wales. It was this: you did not learn a language without entering into a relationship with the people who spoke it with you. His friendship with Tagaran was not a list of objects, or the words for things eaten or not eaten, thrown or not thrown. It was the slow constructing of the map of a relationship.”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant

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