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  1. Paul Collins _ Sixpence House: Lost in a Town

    It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men and women can lift themselves above the sordidness of life. No books! Yet for the greater part of humanity that is the common lot. We may, in fact, divide our fellow-creatures into two branches - those who read books and those who do not.
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  2. Paul Collins _ Sixpence House: Lost in a Town

    I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.
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  3. Paul Collins _ Banvard's Folly: Thirteen

    William pondered what his next discovery might be. He knew that readers were vexed by the possibility that their Bard might have been Catholic. There is, after all, that suspicious reference to Purgatory by the ghost of Hamlet's father. In an era when anti-Catholic legislation was favorably viewed by many, such papist skullduggery was improper in a national literary hero. And so, on Christmas Day of 1794, William presented his nation with a fine gift-Shakespeare's Profession of Faith, in which he disowns any Catholic sympathies. His father was awed by the import of this, so much so that he could no longer keep the discoveries secret. All holiday frivolity was to be set aside now. -
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  4. Paul Collins _ Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder

    How can we expect that the illiterate and benighted child of want will remain faithful . . . when he in whose breast the lamp of science brightly burns is found derelict?
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  5. Paul Collins _ The Murder of the Century: The

    I know the ways of the Mafia."
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  6. Paul Collins _ Duel with the Devil: The True

    You could expect bread, cheese, preserved apples, eggs, and a solid draft of warm beer. Tea and coffee were only slowly taking hold at breakfast in the finer houses, and the city's old Dutch families still drank cocoa at breakfast
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  7. Paul Collins _ Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever

    This backward construction was an authorial slight of hand that Poe understood well. Pondering what he called "tales of ratiocination"-his own name for detective stories-Poe later remarked, "People think them more ingenious than they are-on account of their method and air of method. In the 'Murders in the Rue Morgue,' for instance, where is the ingenuity of unravelling a web which you yourself {the author} have woven? The reader is made to confound the ingenuity of the suppositious Dupin with that of the writer of the story.
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  8. Paul Collins _ Duel with the Devil: The True

    Positive and direct proof of fraud is not to be expected.… The nature of the thing itself, which is generally carried out in a secret and clandestine manner, does not admit of any but circumstantial evidence; and therefore, if no proof of actual fraud were allowed in such cases, much mischief and villainy would ensue, and pass with impunity. Circumstantial evidence is all that can be expected, and indeed all that is necessary to substantiate such a charge.
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  9. Paul Collins _ Duel with the Devil: The True

    For more fortunate readers, it reminded them that "the action of the clytoris in women is like that of a penis to man," and the key to "brifk and vigorous" enjoyments-especially with "cares and thoughts of business drowned in a glafs of rofy wine.
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  10. Paul Collins _ Duel with the Devil: The True

    THE YOUNG carpenter miserably regarded his fellow inmates. Some had been confined for so long that nobody even knew why they were there anymore. One wild-looking blind and insane man known as "Paul from New Jersey" snored quietly on the floor, with only a block of wood as his pillow. When awake, he wandered around naked and filthy. An appalled visitor, asking why the man had been left naked, found the staff unconcerned: "The keeper explained that when furnished with a shirt, the rats soon eat it off.
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  11. Paul Collins _ The Murder of the Century: The

    Put the penis schematic away, he told the coroner.
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  12. Paul Collins _ Duel with the Devil: The True

    Napoléon Bonaparte. The new leader had no immediate fight to pick with America; some thought he might actually bring peace to Europe. Hamilton's endless demands for more funding and troops were beginning to look foolish.
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