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“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."

(The Record Lie)”
― A.A. Milne, If I May

“Perhaps you have friends already who laugh when you do,’ she said diffidently. ‘I haven’t, and it’s important, I think – more important than sympathy in affliction, which you might easily find in someone you positively disliked.’ ‘But to share a sense of the ridiculous prohibits dislike – yes, that’s true. And rare!”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

“But I do not want to be a widow!" declared Elinor.
"I am afraid it is too late in the day to alter that." said Carlyon.
"Besides, if you had known my cousin better you would have wanted to be a widow," Nicky assured her.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Reluctant Widow