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1 " Words are important to me. I listen to each one, weigh and measure it. If I cannot trust your words, how can I trust you? "
― Julie Klassen , The Girl in the Gatehouse
2 " The body might be engaged in the most base drudgery, but always the mind can be thinking on whatever is lovely, pure, noble. "
3 " And therein lies the void between the sexes. Women want long looks and deep discussions, and men want to ride and shoot.” Captain Bryant nodded. “I know I do. Can we lay aside novels for a few hours and go shoot something? "
4 " How foolish was the fox. How blind. To not see, not value the friendship, the affection, the trust the brown bird offered him. "
5 " Flogging will continue until morale improves. "
6 " This is how love should be, Mariah thought. Two honest people, forthright in their intentions, loving and protecting one another. "
7 " A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. – Lord Chesterfield, eighteenth-century statesman "
8 " Chance is perhaps the pseudonym used by God when he does not wish to sign his work. – Anatole France "
9 " She trusted me, foolish girl! And I took advantage of that trust. "
10 " nature’s noblest gift – my grey goose-quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men! – Lord Byron "
11 " I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice "