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1 " Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen. "
― Ruth Downie , Medicus (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #1)
2 " ...a little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance. "
3 " It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip. "
4 " Britannia's big enough to count, but remote enough not to matter. "
5 " Socrates was a wise man. Surveying the goods on a market stall, the great one was said to have remarked, "What a lot of things a man doesn’t need! "
6 " Before long he felt the peaceful floating sensation of a man vaguely and happily aware that he is falling asleep. "
7 " Ruso’s working space contained three shelves, a collection of unmatched stools and chairs, an examination table by the window, and a desk whose migratory tendencies had been curbed by a previous incumbent with a hammer and several large nails. "
8 " wriggled to avoid the lump that always seemed directly under "
