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“But I do not want to be a widow!" declared Elinor.
"I am afraid it is too late in the day to alter that." said Carlyon.
"Besides, if you had known my cousin better you would have wanted to be a widow," Nicky assured her.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Reluctant Widow

tags: humour, love-and-marriage

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“Oh what a pity it happens to be Davey's day for getting drunk. I long to tell him, he will be so much interested.”
― Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate

tags: humour

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“He humped the sack over his shoulder and went on up the path. And Henry, picking up his much smaller bundle, forbore to offer to carry the larger one. To be no longer young, with all the world in front of you, must be bad enough, without having it brought forcibly to your notice.”
― Josephine Tey, The Privateer

tags: the-privateer

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“A life without books is a life not lived.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

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“Seek out the things on the edge, the things in balance. There's a reason why we see beauty in the sunrise and the sunset, in the change of the seasons, and where the land meets the sea.”
― Kevin A. Kuhn, Do You Realize?

tags: balance, beauty, change-of-seasons, sunrise, sunset

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