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“Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?”

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“When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. —THE Muqaddimah OF IBN KHALDÛN”

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“I did not think of myself as a detective; I was a student of theology, and I was to spend my life in exploration,…

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...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

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“The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness would smell…

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“-in New York, a cat could look at a king. Hell, a cat could get himself elected king. But in England, where people had windows reminding them of ancestors whose bones had long since gone to dust? In England, the country that had perfected the art of the devastating remark? In England, where the servants' entrance waited, where all ears…

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The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat…

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“Margery," I blurted out in a passion of frustration. "I don't know what to make of you!" Nor I you, Mary. Frankly, I cannot begin to comprehend the motives of a person who dedicates a large portion of her life to the contemplation of a God in whom she only marginally believes." I felt stunned, as if she had struck…

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Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.

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The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918…

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“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but…

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“Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I…

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I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's…

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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

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You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding…

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Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The…

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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

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Remember that Abraham Lincoln was a Whig far longer than he was a Republican. As a whole, the Whigs looked upon banks and corporations as a more efficient means of development; the Jacksonian Democrats thought they were the tools of the devil, but Whigs like Lincoln disagreed. During his presidency, Lincoln favored the re-construction of a national financial system, and…

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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

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This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but…

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“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of…

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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

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If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him…

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“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was…

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