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From Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel

HE SAYS

"'He says your antecedents are obscure, your youth reckless and wild, that you are a heretic of long standing, a disgrace to the office of councillor; but personally, he finds you a man of good cheer, liberal, openhanded, gracious...'
'I knew he liked me. I should ask him for a job.'"

From Part 4, Chapter II

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From Empty Streets, by Michal Ajvas, translated by Andrew Oakland

FROM

"'From the moment I set out to find you, I've become enmeshed in so many stories,' I continued. 'I've learned about pirates, monsters living in underground lakes, prophets of strange sects, inventors of the typewriter, mysterious books, evil women who change into piles of waste paper, underwater statues, South American beautiful women terrorists, and men learned in bizarre sciences. I'd begun to believe you didn't exist.'"

From Part Two, Chapter Two

An Opiniater

A Dunce

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From Characters, by Samuel Butler

AN UNGRATEFUL MAN

"An ungrateful man is like the dust in the Highway, that flies in the Face of those that raise it."

A Tedious Man