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It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: And if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praise-worthy.

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A WITCH WILL ALWAYS sense that she is in the presence of another born of magical persuasion.

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Starting this one while my son plays in the bath

"As a teenager, I aspired to be a scientist, but too many things happened to distract me from that goal, so I became instead a science appreciator."

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“When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another, which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun.”

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It's getting harder and harder to tell the living from the dead.

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Short story by Ray Bradbury, a parody of Poe‘s “House of Usher“.

I‘ve finished reading Martian Chronicles for the second time this year, but this time I read “Usher II” separately. It turns out I didn‘t need to, I didn‘t know my eBook had an update, so I updated it and it now includes “April 2036 Usher II” and “May 2034 Wilderness”. ️⬇️

It was an ordinary day when Evie met The Villain.

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Mr Hooper‘s ice-cream truck was not like any other ever seen.
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"Mma Ramotswe, owner of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ( as featured in a two-page article in the Botswana Daily News, under the headline "A Lady Who Definitely Knows How to Find Things Out", had strong views on the things that she owned."

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reading this for the second time this year (and making up for all the years this has been on my TBR).

This isn't the opening lines of MC but it is the first line of one of my favourite stories from here. This made me laugh, and is a really nice contrast to the story about Ylla.