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If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche o...

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The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture ...

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M
Muriel SparkCurriculum Vitae: Autobiography

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

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Diana GabaldonThe Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel

To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it ...

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An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling...

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The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being t...

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James HoggThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.