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I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

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Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

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It’s very silly,” she said, “but I go on with it in spite of myself. I’m afraid I’m too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can’t read it.

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When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust I have to come jogging twenty miles back t...more