85 Quotes About Victorian-era
- Author T.G. Campbell
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I’m not like others in my profession.” He frowned slightly and added, more to himself, “Might be why I’ve been an apprentice for the past three years.” [~ Mr Joseph Maxwell, Bow Street Society member.]
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- Author James Ruddick
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An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.
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- Author Lisa Kleypas
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What do ladies wear beneath their riding trousers?""I would think an infamous rake would already know.""I was never infamous. In fact, I'm fairly standard as far as rakes go.""The ones who deny it are the worst.
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- Author Kellyn Roth
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I’m an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.
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- Author Lisa Kleypas
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Let me kiss you here,” he coaxed. “Just once.”“Oh, God… no.” She reached down and weakly pushed his hand away. “It’s a sin.”“How do you know?”“Because it feels like one,” she managed to say.He laughed quietly and pulled her hips farther toward him with a decisiveness that drew a little yelp from her. “In that case… I never sin by half measures.
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- Author Lisa Kleypas
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You took Theo's title and his home," West continued in appalled disbelief, "and now you want his wife.""His widow," Devon muttered."Have you seduced her?""Not yet."West clapped his hand to his forehead. "Christ. Don't you think she's suffered enough?
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- Author Stacy Reid
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You make me burn with life, and yearn to set aside my cold and distant, solitary ways.
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- Author Moriah Densley
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You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to the foundation of one’s soul and put back together. I want to know how you emerged from hell made of steel and fire.
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- Author Katherine Givens
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Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock!
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