Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)
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“It’s simple. Just assume people are chiefly motivated by convenience, vanity, or greed. Any product serving those will be a commercial success.” An uncomfortable pause ensued.
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I’d put my faith in the future, not the past.”
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It was too dangerous, they said, for her reputation, her virtue. But who did the endangering? Men. How convenient for men as a group that the misdeeds of a few elevated each one of them to the status of protector and rendered women dependent on them,
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The sea in the bay below was in uproar and the slate-gray line of the horizon blended water and sky. The damp breeze blew unhampered here and filled Lucian’s mouth with salt. Next to him, Harriet gasped and threw her arms wide open. “Isn’t it vast—isn’t it beautiful!”
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What grace, to be alive,