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he had recently heard some news from England. ‘As I am the son of a former governess of Queen Catalina,’ he wrote savagely, ‘there is no punishment that could descend upon that King that would not make me happy.’
“A dose of chlorine won’t hurt them” Lady Satan opines, quite incorrectly, as she fills an entire room of baddies with the deadly stuff.”
― The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History
― The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History
“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
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a heart-beat
at my feet”
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“They knew that you breathed and you slept and you worked, but they didn’t know that you read. Such a thing was beyond comprehension. They thought that in your spare time you sat and gazed into space, or looked at Peg’s Paper or the Crimson Circle. You could almost see them reporting you to their friends. ‘Margaret’s a good cook, but unfortunately she reads. Books, you know.”
― Below Stairs
― Below Stairs
“Violators of the edict were threatened with eternal damnation and a fine of 10 ducats.”
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
“The monk in the grip of acedia would find it difficult or impossible to read. Looking away from his book, he might try to distract himself with gossip but would more likely glance in disgust at his surroundings and at his fellow monks. He would feel that things were better somewhere else, that he was wasting his life, that everything was stale and pointless, that he was suffocating.”
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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