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She was destined to follow the code written in her genes—bad men, drugs, vagrancy.
“If remembering slights and human wrongdoing was an Olympic pursuit, we would definitely medal. We cling to perceived insults like other families treasure happy memories.”
― Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home
― Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home
“that the infection was propagated insensibly, and by such persons as were not visibly infected, who neither knew whom they infected or who they were infected by.”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
“You've brought out your best butter." [you're laying on the flattery thickly]”
― The Seven Dials Mystery
― The Seven Dials Mystery
“The face of London was now indeed strangely altered:”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
“he had that well-heeled vibe that a lot of the people up here wore on their sleeves, earned the old-fashioned way—through an industrious ancestor.”
― Under Pressure
― Under Pressure
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