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1 " Consider Augustus’s motto. Hurry more slowly. "
― Jo Walton , Lent
2 " Angelo, beds are for sleeping, chairs are for sitting, tables are for piling books.''All flat surfaces are for piling books.' Angelo says "
3 " ...I can see the beauty of the world - a weed growing out of a crack, a sunrise, the glory of art.' He takes comfort in even the grain of wood in the arms of the chair, the gentle coarseness of the linen weave of his shirt, the dust motes dancing in the beam of sunlight, the smell of Marsilio's fresh bread. "
4 " Piero is only twenty years old, but is married already to a Roman aristocrat, an Orsini like his mother. People say he thought himself too good for Florence. When you think you are too good to marry your neighbors, you start expecting them to be your servants. "