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Ed West
“Owain of Strathclyde (the Welsh-speaking kingdom of western Scotland).”
Ed West, Saxons vs. Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages

J.M. Barrie
“she is called Tinker Bell because she mends the pots and kettles.”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Thomas Merton
“Of us all, Father was the only one who really had any kind of a faith. And I do not doubt that he had very much of it, and that behind the walls of his isolation, his intelligence and his will, unimpaired, and not hampered in any essential way by the partial obstruction of some of his senses, were turned to God, and communed with God Who was with him and in him, and Who gave him, as I believe, light to understand and to make use of his suffering for his own good, and to perfect his soul. It was a great soul, large, full of natural charity. He was a man of exceptional intellectual honesty and sincerity and purity of understanding. And this affliction, this terrible and frightening illness which was relentlessly pressing him down even into the jaws of the tomb, was not destroying him after all. Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity. And my father was in a fight with this tumor, and none of us understood the battle. We thought he was done for, but it was making him great.”
Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

J.M. Barrie
“In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II, having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts; and”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Steven Pressfield
“Tutors are usually shaggy, ill-groomed junior dons who smoke and drink to excess and never leave their rooms except for illicit sexual liaisons or to replenish their stocks of tobacco and spirits. A”
Steven Pressfield, Killing Rommel

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