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“A few old men might cling to their mitres and mumble their prayers, but they were a dying breed. It was men like Borgia…

— Sara Poole

“There were about thirty of them, I think - all women; all seated at tables, bearing drinks and books and papers. You might have…

— Sarah Waters

“He was not quite eight-and-twenty, still swift and exact in his motions, and possessed of the kind of roguish, unsullied vigor that conveys neither…

— Eleanor Catton

“When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the…

— Oscar Wilde

“...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a…

— Brenda Novak

“Was there a missing component in all human beings? The rural masses seeking the metropolis; the urban young fleeing to the woods. Women pretending…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“He was sitting in the midst of a children's party at Harold's Cross. His silent watchful manner had grown upon him and he took…

— James Joyce

“The men we met walked past, slow, unsmiling, with downcast eyes, as if the melancholy of a over-burdened earth had weighted their feet, bowed…

— Joseph Conrad

“He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.”

— David Malouf

“Taken from men this morning, Carried by men to-day, Met by the gods with banners Who marshalled her away. One little maid from playmates,…

— Emily Dickinson

“He had thought at first that they were all of common stature and costume, with the evident exception of the hairy Gogol. But as…

— G.K. Chesterton