“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.”
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― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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― The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
― The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
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