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Madeline Doyle
@madelmarie
She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker,5 if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had come on; or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said ‘Exactly’ to
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
She had a proprietary way of admiring other people’s possessions, as if all good taste were in some measure a tribute to herself.
Shirley Hazzard, Brigitta Olubas, • Collected Stories
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Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Frederick Allen
@fallen
She has the cunning of madness, with the prudence of intelligence. I will tell you what she is, Mr. Audley. She is dangerous!”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon • Lady Audley's Secret
O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare • Measure for Measure
Abruptly, and with unwelcome compassion for a woman he’d despised so cheerfully and for so long, he understood what loneliness had compelled Lorna to Bethesda’s door, and to all the church doors after it – recognised, in fact, her capacity to modify herself to please her company. Wasn’t he a different man to different men? It was among the least of
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