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Henry David Thoreau • Walden
The “poor chap” of whom the Colonel was thinking was his son, Denis, now a prisoner of war in Japanese hands. Whether the Colonel’s epithet was due to Denis’s plight or to the wife he had married was uncertain, but Colonel St Cyres disliked his daughter-in-law as heartily as any well-bred man allowed himself to dislike a woman.
E. C. R. Lorac • Fire in the Thatch
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Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
He is in the clean and well-lit prison of one idea: he is sharpened to one painful point.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
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Robert Harris • The Fear Index
“You were out of your mind with self,”
Madeleine L'Engle • An Acceptable Time
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