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  1. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.
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  2. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he'll which way to fall.
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  3. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit or robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern all. But
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  4. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    When I want to hear my echo," said Brother Cadfael, "I will at least speak first.
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  5. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    The best way to get the sweet out of children and escape the bitter is to have them by proxy.
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  6. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.
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  7. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    ... there are as holy persons outside orders as ever there are in, and not to trifle with truth, as good men out of the Christian church as most I've met within it. In the Holy Land I've known Saracens I'd trust before the common run of the crusaders, men honourable, generous and courteous, who would have scorned to haggle and jostle for place and trade as some of our allies did. Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit or robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern all.
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  8. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.
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  9. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.
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  10. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.
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