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But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
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To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. —I sometimes doubt if he's human, said Will, speaking his thought aloud. It's probably all done with wheels.
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And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Dorothy Dunnett
Born:
August 25, 1923
Died:
November 9, 2001
(aged 78)
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