Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively. — David Liss Copy Share Image
I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, and I feel like I… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“Think you it is easy to get a well-known and beautiful woman alone, away from her husband, at so public a gathering? Think you… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“I have never enjoyed traveling long distances by road. The movement of the coach prevents any reading or other amusement, and there is little… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“Lucy absently thanked him and at once began to consider which among her gowns would be best suited for a midnight adventure to a… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“And it relieves me to learn that you are not trying to make friends,” the captain said, locking her hammerhead eyes on Ms. Price,… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“What had passed between them had been real and true and lived. Not like the silly infatuation she had felt for [him] when she… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“You have my word as a gentleman." [The other man remarks that he is not a gentleman and he retorts] "Then you have my… — David Liss Copy Share Image
I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“There will always be a storm. You may be rained on or cause the rain yourself. I much prefer the latter.” — David Liss Copy Share Image
We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty that even… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, it was inconceivable that I would be welome in, let alone invited to, their home. It was as well, then, that… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“Elias nodded. “You begin to understand the theory of probability,” he said. “From the general necessity of the existence of victims, you will find… — David Liss Copy Share Image
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![“You have my word as a gentleman." [The other man remarks that he is not a gentleman and he retorts] "Then you have my word as a scoundrel, which, I know, opens up a rather confusing paradox that I have neither the time nor inclination to disentangle.” quote by David Liss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a80/david-liss-15946_language_you-have-my-word-as-a-gentleman-the-othe_486607.jpg)
