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“She absolutely declined to be puzzled; she turned her eyes to the flame of the candle as if the question were as irrelevant, or at any rate as impersonal, as Mrs. Marcet or nine-times-nine.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

“Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

“And the plague gathered strength as it was transmitted from the sick to the healthy through normal intercourse, just as fire catches on to any dry or greasy object placed too close to it. Nor did it stop there: not only did the healthy incur the disease and with it the prevailing mortality by talking to or keeping company with the sick--they had only to touch the clothing or anything else that had come into contact with or been used by the sick and the plague evidently was passed to the one who handled those things.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

“Of women he was as fond as dogs of the stick; but in the contrary he delighted more than any filthy fellow alive.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, THE DECAMERON: