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'La Fl. Would you prevent me from cursing misers?
Har. No; but I will prevent you from prating and from being insolent. Hold your tongue, will you?
La Fl. I name nobody.
Har. Another word, and I'll thrash you.'
Moliere, The Miser.

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2022-01-15

“Rat,” he moaned, “how about your supper, you poor, cold, hungry, weary animal? I’ve nothing to give you—nothing—not a crumb! ...“No bread!” groaned the Mole dolorously; “no butter, no—”

“No pâté de foie gras, no champagne!” continued the Rat, grinning.

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2022-01-09

'Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?'
-William Blake

Welcome to the first of 2022!📚🐛

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“All children, except one, grow up.”
–JM Barrie, Peter Pan

🎨Scott Gustafson

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2022-01-08

✨99p Sale✨

Can your eating habits reveal what you’re really like?

Lucy’s mum seems to think so!

Read Table Manners in TO TELL A TALE OR TWO https://t.co/cdmnY31XMC to find out why, plus other with a twist!

Perfect for busy

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2022-01-01

"Perfect Christmas story for those early readers!"
-- Future Bookworms, on HEY JACK! THE LOST REINDEER (Sally Rippin, Stephanie Spartels)

🦌: https://t.co/irbpuAlcHV
📚: https://t.co/YCotavlLBF

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2021-12-22

“Always winter but never Christmas.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe



🎨Cover illustration from the movie The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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2021-12-11

'Dust of Snow' by Robert Frost

"The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."



🎨 'Crow on snow-covered tree branch' by Ohara Koson, 1945

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“Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle” -Edgar Allan Poe

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“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”
Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009)

Art : Anna Berg (Swedish, 1875 - 1950): Winter garden (via Bukowskis)

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2021-12-11

'Why were you born when the snow was falling?
You should have come to the cuckoo’s calling,
Or when grapes are green in the cluster,
Or, at least, when lithe swallows muster
For their far off flying
From summer dying.'
-Christina Rossetti

🎨Remigius Adrianus Haanen

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2021-12-04

Annabel Lee
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

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'The deil cam fiddlin' thro' the town,
And danc'd awa wi' th' Exciseman'
-Robert Burns

Dear bookworms, this week's theme is Lyric Poetry!🎶🐛

Use for a retweet! (Saturday 10am-8pm CET)

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2021-12-02

"Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?" (P.B. Shelley "To the Moon")

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2021-11-28

❤️ When Jane tells off Mrs. Reed:

“…you treated me with miserable cruelty…Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult... It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had struggled out into unhoped-for liberty…”
—Jane Eyre

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2021-11-21

The man had shrunk down, thoroughly quelled by the ferocity of the crowd and the impossibility of escape..

- Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist

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2021-11-21



Scrooge.

‘Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.’

from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

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2021-11-20

“It happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant upon a London winter, there appeared at the various parties of the leaders of the ton a nobleman, more remarkable for his singularities, than his rank.” (John Poldiroi "The Vampyre")



🎨 Max Ernst

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