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- Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating…
- I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words…
- Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae';…
- He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment…
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