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No house of any pretension to be called a palace is in the least worthy of the name, except it has a wood near it—very near it—and the nearer the better.
George MacDonald • The Complete Fairy Tales
A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
Let me see, thou wouldst do well to wait at my trencher and tell 30 me lies at dinner-time; and, as I like your discoursing, I’ll have you.
Christopher Marlowe • Edward II Revised (New Mermaids)
It is still in some strange way considered unpractical to open up inquiries about anything by asking what it is.