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How short is human life! the very breath
Which frames my words accelerates my death. ~ Hannah More
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. ~ Hannah More
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Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves. ~ Hannah More
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I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is. - Hannah More ~ Karen Swallow Prior
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He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle. ~ Hannah More
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When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. ~ Hannah More
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Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend. ~ Hannah More
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. ~ Hannah More
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We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better. ~ Hannah More
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Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions. ~ Hannah More
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When these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching? ~ Hannah More
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When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment. ~ Hannah More
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Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse? ~ Hannah More
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How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity! ~ Hannah More
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Names govern the world. ~ Hannah More
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It may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us. ~ Hannah More
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It's cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit. ~ Hannah More
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Love never reasons but profusely gives ... gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little. ~ Hannah More
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All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted. ~ Hannah More
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Parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius. ~ Hannah More
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It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread. ~ Hannah More
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. ~ Hannah More
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In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind. ~ Hannah More
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Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. ~ Hannah More
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ~ Hannah More
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Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it. ~ Hannah More
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Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices ~ Hannah More
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Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing. ~ Hannah More
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Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it. ~ Hannah More
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A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat. ~ Hannah More
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It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation. ~ Hannah More
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Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. ~ Hannah More
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It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention. ~ Hannah More
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Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them. ~ Hannah More
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Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love. ~ Hannah More
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My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it. ~ Hannah More
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Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good. ~ Hannah More
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Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life. ~ Karen Swallow Prior
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In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear? ~ Hannah More
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Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right. ~ Hannah More
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The uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it. ~ Hannah More
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Just at that moment, Lucilla happened to cross the lawn at a distance. At sight of her, I could not, as I pointed to her, forbear exclaiming in the words of Sir John's favorite poet,
There doth beauty dwell,
There most conspicuous, e'en in outward shape,
Where dawns the high expression of a mind.
"This is very fine," said Sir John, sarcastically. "I admire all you young enthusiastic philosophers, with your intellectual refinement. You pretend to be captivated only with _mind_. I observe, however, that previous to your raptures, you always take care to get this mind lodged in a fair and youthful form. This mental beauty is always prudently enshrined in some elegant corporeal frame, before it is worshiped. I should be glad to see some of these intellectual adorers in love with the mind of an old or ugly woman. I never heard any of you fall into ecstasies in descanting on the mind of your grandmother. ~ Hannah More
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems. ~ Hannah More
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The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. ~ Hannah More
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People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart. ~ Hannah More
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The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty. ~ Hannah More
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Bible Christianity is what I love ... a Christianity practical and pure, which teaches holiness, humility, repentance and faith in Christ; and which after summing up all the Evangelical graces, declares that the greatest of these is charity . ~ Hannah More
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He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to pray must find time to die; he who can find no time to reflect is most likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repentance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail; he who cannot find time to work for others may find an eternity in which to suffer for himself. ~ Hannah More
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Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request. ~ Hannah More
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The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted. ~ Hannah More
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... evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-so-distant memory. ~ Karen Swallow Prior
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The keen spirit
Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought
Start into instant action, and at once
Plans and performs, resolves and executes! ~ Hannah More
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I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife. I call education not that which is made up of the shreds and patches of useless arts, but that which inculcates principles, polishes taste, regulates temper, cultivates reason, subdues the passions, directs the feelings, habituates to reflection, trains to self-denial, and, more especially, that which refers all actions, feelings, sentiments, tastes, and passions, to the love and fear of God. ~ Hannah More
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It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know. ~ Hannah More
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A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed. ~ Hannah More
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We live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice. ~ Hannah More
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No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. ~ Hannah More
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part. ~ Hannah More
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Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants. ~ Hannah More
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. ~ Hannah More
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. ~ Hannah More
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Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely. ~ Hannah More
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I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation. ~ Hannah More
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He who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour. ~ Hannah More
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A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. ~ Hannah More
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Imagination frames events unknown,
In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin,
And what it fears creates. ~ Hannah More
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The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. ~ Hannah More
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... the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to 'be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements. They had the potential for immense influence on their husbands and sons, on their relations, their servants, and the poor.' More held, therefore, ... 'the ideal of rational domesticity helped to liberate the individual within a supportive family framework. ~ Karen Swallow Prior
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We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven.
Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our
forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives,
for in forgiving one another we act towards one another
as He has acted towards us. ~ Hannah More
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Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing. ~ Hannah More
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If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all. ~ Hannah More
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It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read. ~ Hannah More
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If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody. ~ Hannah More
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Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long. ~ Hannah More
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To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone ... ~ Hannah More
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Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure. ~ Hannah More
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That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it ~ Hannah More
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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart. ~ Hannah More
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Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated ... ' - Hannah More ~ Karen Swallow Prior
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A small unkindness is a great offence. ~ Hannah More
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I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure; I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees. ~ Hannah More
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If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody. ~ Hannah More
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Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee. ~ Hannah More
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The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth. ~ Robert Aris Willmott
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We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us. ~ Hannah More
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All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God. ~ Hannah More
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ran along the stone wall. Two years ago this pantry had been full to overflowing with hams smoked in ash and jars full of duck fat set beside coils of sausage. Bottles of aged champagne ~ Kristin Hannah
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Also, tonight he reeks too much of beer and cloying cologne. This is a disappointment because I always assumed that a perfect creature such as Brendon would smell of spring rain and mountain bresses and other heavenly aromas. ~ Hannah Harrington
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Don't think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you. ~ Kristin Hannah
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Sometimes, when I look back over my life," said Hannah sadly, "I do not think of all the people who harmed me, but quite often of all the kindnesses and wish I could go back and say 'thank you' properly." She ~ Marion Chesney
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In the cowshed, my head hard against the floor, Natan broke the very yolk of my soul. ~ Hannah Kent
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Never be caught staring at someone. They'll think you want something from them. ~ Hannah Kent
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To be mindful is to keep your thoughts in the present moment. A mindful person does not look back with regret or forward with worry. ~ Hannah Robbins
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A "divine people" lives in a world in which it is the born persecutor of all other weaker species, or the born victim of all other stronger species. Only the rules of the animal kingdom can possibly apply to its political destinies. ~ Hannah Arendt
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Home. She closes her eyes and thinks of a swaying meadow, dappled sunlight falling through green branches, walking among tall, leafy trees. She thinks of long, tapered feathers with eyes the color of emeralds and sapphires. ~ Hannah Richell
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Don't ever smile if you don't want to," she said, and Hannah, half-blinded by the spotlight of Lydia's whole attention, nodded. "Remember that. ~ Celeste Ng
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Agatha Christie never wrote books that just started with a dead body, and a 'Let's find out who the murderer is', which is kind of mysterious but not that mysterious. She always started with, 'How can this thing be happening; isn't it strange?' ~ Sophie Hannah
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it. ~ Hannah Kent
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In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11. ~ Sophie Hannah
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Keeping secrets isn't my specialty. ~ Hannah Harrington
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