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A Handful of Dust (1934)
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We will not have any Dickens today... but tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. Let us read Little Dorrit again.
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"Was anyone hurt?"
"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court."
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Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Born:
October 28, 1903
Died:
April 10, 1966
(aged 62)
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