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"He only got my note this morning," she mused.

#GeorgeMoore #AMereAccident

"Oh, my child, it would take too long just now to tell you all *I* want!

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

She placed it on the chimney piece; she stirred the fire, and her thoughts flowed pleasantly as she dwelt on the kindness of her old friend.

#GeorgeMoore #AMereAccident

"Yes," the girl assented, "even I suppose when what one wants is something very good."

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

As Noahs Arke did admit all kind of creatures, which Paradice did not: so mans body doth admit all vnruly and vntamed affections, but admitteth not vertues worthy of praise. Idem lib. de plantatione Noæ.

#PalladisTamia #FrancisMeres

When the parson had drunk the wine, and was following the butler upstairs, Mrs Norton returned to the dining-room with the empty glass in her hand.

#GeorgeMoore #AMereAccident

But people may be very good, and yet not good for what one wants."

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

I'll fetch it for you."

#GeorgeMoore #AMereAccident

"You dear American thing!

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As they that are ruled by good lawes liue in peace: so they that are ruled by sound reason, and not by vnruly affections, liue in rest and tranquility ibidem.

#PalladisTamia #FrancisMeres

"Yes, indeed! not one step further!

#GeorgeMoore #AMereAccident

For Mrs. Lowder also, moreover, her simple words were the right ones; they were at any rate, that lady's laugh showed, in the natural note of the racy.

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

She was to lie awake, at all events, half the night, for the gladness of not having taken any line so really inferior as the denial of a happy impression.

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

"I am afraid of spoiling your carpet."

#GeorgeMoore #AMereAccident

So came and went for her, in these simple words, the speech that was to figure for her, later on, that night, as the one she had ever uttered that cost her most.

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

Stay, will you have a glass of wine before going upstairs?"

#GeorgeMoore #AMereAccident

"I did—three times—in New York."

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

I'll tell them to bring up lunch in ten minutes.

#GeorgeMoore #AMereAccident

She was then almost proud, as well, that she had cheerfully smiled.

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

Reconstruction of a flag, emblazoned with "Freedom or death," used during the 1903 Strandzha Commune- a short-lived attempt to realize libertarian communism, mostly by Greek and Bulgarian peasants- made and used by the villagers of Zabernovo, modern-day Bulgaria

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I made a starter pack for specialists in Eastern Christian Studies- check it out, share with others, and let me know who else to add!

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my book, _Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty: Genres of Tradition in Muslim South Asia_, will be published by @undpress.bsky.social in June 2026

i'm going through the proofs, and don't see any typos in the epilogue, so sharing this 3-page essay here

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“A new language is what responds to reality where a moral, epistemological jolt has occurred.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

(from the first Frankfurt lecture)

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I'll give you ten minutes.

#GeorgeMoore #AMereAccident

She just caught her breath, but she had ground for joy afterwards, she felt, in not really having failed to choose with quickness sufficient, out of fifteen possible answers, the one that would best serve her.

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

You'll find everything ready for you in John's room.

#GeorgeMoore #AMereAccident

Milly hesitated, for the question was somehow as the sudden point of something sharp on a nerve that winced.

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames