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Royal Blood (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #4)

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Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (The Rabbi Small Mysteries #1) by Harry Kemelman

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He’s a scholar, Mr. Wasserman. That’s what a rabbi is, a scholar. I know what you mean. I know the sort of man the congregation wants. He gets up in a public meeting to give the invocation. He bows his head as though the Almighty were right ...more

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“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

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“Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates.”
― Joseph Delaney, Attack of the Fiend

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“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

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“Believing that a person’s sex, race and orientation defines the acceptable limits of the opinions they may hold is called “identity politics.” It’s a bizarre but flourishing cult in America today that makes fools of its supporters by presenting an insultingly reductionist view of human nature.”
― Vox Day, SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police

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