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  1. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    Why do pretty women always have such herds of relatives?
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  2. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    The little man was all smiling acquiescence.
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  3. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    But the sound that came out of his mouth was no sound at all; it was the emptied skin of sound without flesh or bones.
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  4. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    room was crowded with officers bringing reports or collecting orders, or simply gathering gossip. At one end of the room was a very venerable, ornate and crumbling
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  5. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    would not, I imagine, suggest that it is the task of botanists to devise more flowers? Or that astronomers should labour to rearrange the stars? Magicians, Mr Segundus, study magic which was done long ago. Why should any one expect more?" An elderly gentleman with faint blue eyes and
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  6. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    It had so happened that, in the course of his labours on behalf of the little stone figure and the girl with the ivy-leaves in her hair, Mr Honeyfoot had discovered something. He believed that he had identified the murderer as an Avebury man. So he had come to Wiltshire to look at some old documents in Avebury parish church. "For," as he had explained to Mr Segundus, "if I discover who he was, then perhaps it may lead me to discover who was the girl and what dark impulse drove him to destroy her." Mr Segundus had gone with his friend and had looked at all the documents and helped him unpick the old Latin. But, though Mr Segundus loved old documents {no one loved them more} and though he put great faith in what they could achieve, he secretly doubted that seven Latin words five centuries old could explain a man's life.
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  7. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    I do not intend to go, in the space of one hour, from the helplessness of enchantment to another sort of helplessness!"
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  8. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    There is at least as much contrariness in your character as in mine. Why not come and be contrary with me?
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  9. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics – in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.
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  10. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    What nobility of feeling!" he cried. "To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! Well, it is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.
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  11. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    A man as talented and handsome as yourself ought not be a servant!" he said in a shocked tone. "He ought to be the ruler of a vast estate! What is beauty for, I should like to know, if not to stand as a visible sign of one's superiority to everyone else? But I see how it is! Your enemies have conspired together to deprive you of all your possessions and to cast you down among the ignorant and lowly!
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  12. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    Of all the tiresome situations in the world, thought the Prince Regent, the most tiresome was to rise from one's bed in a state of uncertainty as to whether or not one was the ruler of Great Britain.
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